11/22/2005: SmartP parking innovation

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I don't think so because it has to move the car completely clear of the platform. That's the rear bumper that has to be clear which means the wheel could be several feet from it.

The model shows some sort of push/pull arm in each bay. That would seem to me less efficient than a push/pull arm in the center rotating platform (platter). However, for the platter, the idea might be 'keep it simple, stupid.'

If that is the case, then the platter has only two tasks: adjust to the right elevation, and do the lazy-susan thing to align the vehicle with the bay.

As long as each bay has a telescoping arm to reach the automobile wheels, it would work fine. I'm sure there is some sort of camera to keep the arm retracting to make sure that nothing hangs out of the bay into the platter space. The biggest problem I see would be if the vehicle were badly out of alignment, and pulling it in caused it to skew alignment.