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London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by kkrkgbbsvjdlzn »

jameshart wrote: post #107
dgellow wrote: post #102

I never thought about this, can you steal cars by lifting them like that in the air? Not that I think that will happen, but it would be really funny to hack such a robot and just collect cars around

This technique is frequently used by towing companies impounding cars and reposession agents collecting cars for loan defaults - absolutely you can pick up and take a car away with the right hardware. Just for most people a stolen locked car isn’t really of much uses.

Already invented protection for this. https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ug4I89c98

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by Reason077 »

the__alchemist wrote: post #67
pontus wrote: post #14

So I'll have to park my car in a garage first, then take a bus to the terminal just so that a robot can move my car from the place where I parked it to a different place? I was hoping it'd be something where I'd pull up to the curb, grab my bags and head in while the robot parked the car for me but apparently I'll still have to take a bus to the terminal?

I will give you a reason why this might be useful. Not at Gatwick. (I always took the train when I lived in that area and usually ended up at Heathrow or Stanstead anyway). But at Raleigh NC for example, you have to go up 5 levels to find a spot, (I have never seen an open spot on levels 1-4) and spend about 10 minutes or more finding a spot after that, then walking from your spot to the elevator, then back out. Or s…

> "you won't find spots on the lower levels, ... the "x spots open" indicators are lying"

A simpler and cheaper solution would be to fix those availability signs. Surely this is not a problem that a few cameras and some smart software couldn't solve.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by OptionOfT »

dgellow wrote: post #102

I never thought about this, can you steal cars by lifting them like that in the air? Not that I think that will happen, but it would be really funny to hack such a robot and just collect cars around

Yes. If you can get under it.

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by juleiie »

myegorov wrote: post #130
telesilla wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes airport parking is insanely expensive (cough Schipol), so I'll park further away anyway or park somewhere I can get the train. If this helped lower costs I'd be fine with this but probably they'd keep the high price anyway.

Fun fact: you can get to/from Schiphol by bike.

Unless the bike has electric engine and cargo compartment it’s not super viable id say to move all that luggage

Re: London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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Post by fdsdffds »

pkulak wrote: post #72

I guess we can add this to the ever-growing list of extremely expensive, complicated, inefficient and convoluted solutions to problems that end with the final specification: "but it can't be a train".

Yes, let's depend on a train for my time-sensitive journey with lots of awkward luggage.

Do you people even ride trains? Are you OK with the 50/50 odds of gettings home on time?

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