{"id":555,"date":"2006-05-12T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T11:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2006-05-12T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T11:08:04","slug":"presenting_the_robogarage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/12\/presenting_the_robogarage\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting The Robo-Garage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Girlfriend was quite taken with something I showed her yesterday and thought I needed to share it with my other loyal readers, so here you go, the very first Simple Tricks and Nonsense Reader Request:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/germancaryard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Autostadt Car Towers in Wolfsburg, Germany\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/germancaryard-thumb.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re looking at a 20-story-high, automated car-storage facility built by the Volkswagen company in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Click the photo to enlarge it.) It&#8217;s apparently part of an <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ou3cd\">automotive theme park<\/a> where, among other things, you can buy one of the new cars stored in this tower. After you place your order, the robo-garage retrieves the requested car and brings it down for you without any human intervention. All very high-tech and futuristicky. Reminds me of the factory scene in <i>Minority Report<\/i>. Wild stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Credit goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/05\/11\/20storey_robotic_cyl.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> for bringing my attention to this, as well as Boing Boing&#8217;s source for this item, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoolhunter.net\/design\/GERMAN-PARKING-GARAGE\/\">The Cool Hunter<\/a>. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kan4y\">here<\/a> for a couple more photos of this amazing (if gimmicky) monument to the car industry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girlfriend was quite taken with something I showed her yesterday and thought I needed to share it with my other loyal readers, so here you go, the very first Simple Tricks and Nonsense Reader Request: You&#8217;re looking at a 20-story-high, automated car-storage facility built by the Volkswagen company in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Click the photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}