The solution to the world’s parking crisis is obvious: state-of-the-art automated car elevator robotic technologies will deliver the most space-efficient and cost-efficient parking. The current generation of parking garages has space-consuming access ramps and lots of access lanes that never get parked on. The ramps aren’t needed when you have a car lift and a computerized racking system. A custom-built automated car parking facility of the same size as a conventional car park can hold at least twice as many cars, offering double or more the income after a safe refurbishing investment.

Automatic parking also eliminates the chance of damage to their car interior or theft of personal goods left inside of car. Once a customer drives inside the garage’s room and locks their car, they swipe a card to activate the system and leave. Their vehicle remains motionless, transported on a pallet automatically to its storage bay. When returning, customers swipe their card and their car is returned back to the point and the customer starts the car and drives away. No tipping of attendants will be required. Without the frequent running and idling of auto engines found within traditional car valet parking systems, the environmental nuisance of harmful car exhaust fumes and excessive noise will also be removed.

Clear-span construction was better suited to changing car sizes, and self-parking equipment satisfied customers’ general impatience better than mechanical garages, which still required waiting. Periodic failures and unrepaired examples revived the prewar reputation of the mechanical parkers as impractical gadgets.