Wolfsburg, Germany. Don’t bother getting your car out of the parking complex – this robotic building does it for you! Car buyers can pick up their new ride from this futuristic garage. The two 20-storey ‘CarTowers’ have been called the “landmark” of Autostadt, a theme park inside Volkswagen’s main car factory complex.
• Stacking cars for new customers
How it works. New cars arrive from the production facility on robotic skids that transport them through a 700-meter underground system of tunnels. After they reach the storage silos, they are hoisted up to a shelf where they are kept until picked up by the customer, usually within twenty four hours.
• [CAPTION] The final fight in “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” was filmed in a recreation of the garage.
• 1.5
meters per second – the speed the cars travel when lifted up into the towers. Every day some 600 cars are picked up from the two CarTowers by their new owners, making it the world’s largest vehicle delivery center.
• Weird carparks
— Umihotaru, Tokyo
This rest area/parking is an artificial island that joins a bridge and tunnel.
— Michigan Theater, Detroit
Once a concert hall: chandeliers gone, but ornate plaster ceiling remains.
— Parkeringsbåt, Gothenburg
Floating parking boat dips below waterline when full
