Meh. Bruce McCall did it first: Moto-Ritz Towers

That'll be fun when the power goes out.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: That'll be fun when the power goes out.

I know! I know! Belt-powered generator system! The cars drive onto a treadmill, the juice goes to the 'vator, everybody's happy!

/when this baby hits neutral you're gonna see some serious shiat!

Instant follow-up stories about old folks flooring it from the 57th floor to come.

Bagelox-99: Meh. Bruce McCall did it first: Moto-Ritz Towers
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Wow, no guardrails or anything. That's crazy.

Also, you might be a fatso if...

This will never happen.

ultraholland: Instant follow-up stories about old folks flooring it from the 57th floor to come.

Along with lawsuits that dont hold stupid people accountable for their actions

cool.

Don't cars catch on fire like 100 times more often than houses?

what pisses me off are those indians thinking they deserve everything. Just drink your booze and STFU!

What an interesting, stylish and laughably impractical absurdity.

At least nothing can go wrong.

Neat

McKeesport Beer Baron: Don't cars catch on fire like 100 times more often than houses?

Came here to say this. (Well, not the statistic. It might have been pulled out of somebody's ass, but you get the gist.)

This'll go real well the first time somebody's car catches fire, INSIDE the apartment building.

Guys
I have a great idea
Guys listen
Why don't we
Guys
Why don't we build a tower
Guys, seriously
Why don't we build a tower where you can't get your vehicle out
Guys
A tower where you can't get your vehicle out if the power is out
And then
Guys
And then we build it in a place prone to massive hurricanes

Can someone better explain the mechanics of how the robot arm and elevator work together?


This is what I picture in my head, it's the VW car towers in Germany

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: Guys
I have a great idea
Guys listen
Why don't we
Guys
Why don't we build a tower
Guys, seriously
Why don't we build a tower where you can't get your vehicle out
Guys
A tower where you can't get your vehicle out if the power is out
And then
Guys
And then we build it in a place prone to massive hurricanes

Wow. You sound an awful lot like an architect...

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IIRC VW has this in operation at its warehouse in Germany. There's video of it somewhere. I think you can pick up your car there and get a tour. Given the association between VW and Porsche, I assume it is the same technology. Copious fire extinguishers mounted in the elevators should take care of the fire hazard. Agree on rush hour and power outages though.

what a waste of expensive square footage---

Ha! I was composing my post when the three before it went up...

Medic Zero Quit showing us that you have down syndrome.

Sorry Smitty, car elevators are not new.



Still building them in India, too.

ultraholland: Instant follow-up stories about old folks flooring it from the 57th floor to come.

This.

A few years ago here in Spokane, some lady drove through the concrete barrier in the mall parking lot. On the 5th floor. She successfully made it *out* of the parking garage, though.

already been done, 2008, in Berlin

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KidneyStone: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: That'll be fun when the power goes out.

Not to mention rush hour

Given the "up to $9 million" price tag, I'm guessing most of the target audience doesn't have much concern about rush hour.

But this condo plan will come in handy when people become so obese that everyone rides around on carts and can't even stand up for an elevator ride any more. At least the weight-handling capacity will be in place.

antidisestablishmentarianism: If only we all had Peel P50's
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I love that Top Gear skit -- good stuff.

jokker: Can someone better explain the mechanics of how the robot arm and elevator work together?


This is what I picture in my head, it's the VW car towers in Germany

I'm guessing the robot arm is like the arms in the hydraulic lifts at the mechanic or tire store which lift up the car.

ultraholland: Instant follow-up stories about old folks flooring it from the 57th floor to come.

As long as the tires doesn't touch anything from the time the robot arm picks it up from the road to the time it puts it back on the road, this should not be a problem. When parking next to the condo, it will probably be put on some sort of blocks.

What if you decide not to own a car anymore? Do you get kicked out of the apartment?

regardless of the car aspect, i imagine this development will be broke within two years...

seriously, who even has nine million dollars for shtuyot like this any more? i know i'd rather spend my last billion on sushi than car elevators...

Yes, because no other extravagant city in the USA has ever done this before (new window).

What a waste of resources.

Car elevators aren't new, and they can actually save a lot of space in a city. Putting the car next to the apartment, depending on how they design the place, isn't necessarily going to take vastly more space than regular parking, and parking elevators take much less space than a normal parking garage. I wouldn't even be surprised if a modern elevator system could get a vehicle to elevation more efficiently than a modern car engine. Just remember, you can't take the stairs with your car when the elevator is out. I imagine a swag place like that has probably thought about the problems of car fires and has some sort of fire suppression system in the plans.

Silly, maybe, but not necessarily as impractical as it might seem at first blush.

Will they have hose hook-ups so you can wash your car in the driveway on the 57th floor?

This is the same state where I've WATCHED people drive 3/4 of a block to pick up a pizza. I wouldn't be surprised if the commissioners approved the plan at a drive-through window.

Put in a freight elevator leading to what people really use garage space for, quick-access storage units. Now we're talking something sensible that architects completely lack the brain cells to envision.

/or maybe just a freight elevator, period
//or just a hospital-sized elevator? have condo architects never owned furniture larger than an ikea box?

Monority report had a solution as well...

Wow, that's unbelievable!
/can't believe anyone's building in Florida

KidneyStone: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: That'll be fun when the power goes out.

Not to mention rush hour

And teenage hackers, if they hook the robotic car-moving arms up to the intertubes...

"We are so lucky to be raised amongst catalogues."
"Especially because we don't have to deal with people so much. You can just talk to the person on the phone."
"Or not."



My favorite line in the movie, Best in Show, "Or not."

MrEricSir: What if you decide not to own a car anymore? Do you get kicked out of the apartment?

Imagine any cartoon sequence where a human gets put on an assembly line by accident. That's what happens every day

HelloMyNameIs: This is the same state where I've WATCHED people drive 3/4 of a block to pick up a pizza.

It's almost like the obesity epidemic and global warming are connected somehow...

jagec: Bagelox-99: Meh. Bruce McCall did it first: Moto-Ritz Towers
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Wow, no guardrails or anything. That's crazy.

Also, you might be a fatso if...

If what? If you know who Bruce McCall is???