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Look at Country's First Robotic Garage

Aired November 12, 2002 - 05:51   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: There are robotic pets, robotic vacuum cleaners and now there's a robotic parking garage. It's a common thing in places like Japan and Europe.
But CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on what may be the first of its kind in the U.S.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It puts a whole new spin on parking. It could put to rest a car owner's worst parking garage nightmare.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It could get wrecked, stolen, scratched, breathed on wrong.

MOOS: Or taken on a joy ride. But what if there were no parking lot attendants?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's your car making that noise now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. Exactly. Yes, it's coming down from one of, whatever shelf they put it on.

MOOS: At this garage, there's no one in the driver's seat.

GERHARD HAAG, PRESIDENT, ROBOTIC PARKING: Absolutely robotic.

MOOS: Gerhard Haag is president of Robotic Parking. His company's first fully automated garage is now open in Hoboken, New Jersey.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll go without food before I go without this garage.

MOOS: As you drive up, your access card is electronically read and a door opens. You pull onto a platform, following instructions. The driver exits and this is the car's eye view as it's pulled, raised and maneuvered into a space. There are seven levels.

HAAG: So we can have 14 movements at any time, which is very fast.

MOOS (on camera): A kind of ballet.

HAAG: Exactly. It's like a ballet.

MOOS (voice-over): Or maybe a waltz.

(on camera): Do you wonder?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I'm curious. I'm curious. I have to explain it to my 3-year-old.

MOOS (voice-over): To pick up your car, you punch in your PIN. In a minute or two, you're told in which bay it will appear.

(on camera): Oh, Harris card.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My name is Harris.

MOOS: Hi.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi.

MOOS (voice-over): You get in and drive off. Three times as many cars fit into the same amount of space because there's no need for ramps or space to open doors between cars. A single operator can handle the 312 car lot. As vehicles move they're tracked on the computer like a video game.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're just moving stuff around. It's not like Pac Man, because we don't gobble them up, but.

MOOS: Since no one goes inside...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don't have to worry about the typical kind of case of where you're walking around alone in a dark garage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I leave the key in the car. I don't, I leave the doors unlocked. I don't worry about it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And nobody touches your car. I say to people, I can leave hundred dollar bills on the floor of my car but nobody's in it.

MOOS: True, an automated fabric door clobbered our cameraman. But that's because he parked himself in the wrong place. Perhaps best of all...

HAAG: You don't need to tip.

MOOS: Music to a motorist's ears, a blue Sedan waltzing to the "Blue Danube."

Jeanne Moos, CNN, Hoboken, New Jersey.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired November 12, 2002 - 05:51   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: There are robotic pets, robotic vacuum cleaners and now there's a robotic parking garage. It's a common thing in places like Japan and Europe.
But CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on what may be the first of its kind in the U.S.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It puts a whole new spin on parking. It could put to rest a car owner's worst parking garage nightmare.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It could get wrecked, stolen, scratched, breathed on wrong.

MOOS: Or taken on a joy ride. But what if there were no parking lot attendants?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's your car making that noise now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. Exactly. Yes, it's coming down from one of, whatever shelf they put it on.

MOOS: At this garage, there's no one in the driver's seat.

GERHARD HAAG, PRESIDENT, ROBOTIC PARKING: Absolutely robotic.

MOOS: Gerhard Haag is president of Robotic Parking. His company's first fully automated garage is now open in Hoboken, New Jersey.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll go without food before I go without this garage.

MOOS: As you drive up, your access card is electronically read and a door opens. You pull onto a platform, following instructions. The driver exits and this is the car's eye view as it's pulled, raised and maneuvered into a space. There are seven levels.

HAAG: So we can have 14 movements at any time, which is very fast.

MOOS (on camera): A kind of ballet.

HAAG: Exactly. It's like a ballet.

MOOS (voice-over): Or maybe a waltz.

(on camera): Do you wonder?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I'm curious. I'm curious. I have to explain it to my 3-year-old.

MOOS (voice-over): To pick up your car, you punch in your PIN. In a minute or two, you're told in which bay it will appear.

(on camera): Oh, Harris card.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My name is Harris.

MOOS: Hi.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi.

MOOS (voice-over): You get in and drive off. Three times as many cars fit into the same amount of space because there's no need for ramps or space to open doors between cars. A single operator can handle the 312 car lot. As vehicles move they're tracked on the computer like a video game.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're just moving stuff around. It's not like Pac Man, because we don't gobble them up, but.

MOOS: Since no one goes inside...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don't have to worry about the typical kind of case of where you're walking around alone in a dark garage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I leave the key in the car. I don't, I leave the doors unlocked. I don't worry about it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And nobody touches your car. I say to people, I can leave hundred dollar bills on the floor of my car but nobody's in it.

MOOS: True, an automated fabric door clobbered our cameraman. But that's because he parked himself in the wrong place. Perhaps best of all...

HAAG: You don't need to tip.

MOOS: Music to a motorist's ears, a blue Sedan waltzing to the "Blue Danube."

Jeanne Moos, CNN, Hoboken, New Jersey.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com