Japanese Robot Steals Your Bike
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 10 of September , 2008 at 3:07 am
Now this, this is cool. Apparently, so many people commute by bicycle in Japan that finding bike parking has become a serious problem. The obvious solution is of course to construct a gigantic $67 million robotic bike parking garage that can store more than 9000 bikes and keeps them all organized through RFID. It only takes about 10 seconds from ID card swipe to bike deposit, and the service runs a mere $18 a month, which I’d be willing to pay just to watch this thing do what it does.
VIA [ Treehugger ]
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Comment by Joseph A Nickence
Made Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 12:47 pm
As long as gas prices keep going up, more peeps are gonna need this kind of service. Now it just needs to come to the US.
Comment by DavidV
Made Saturday, 28 of February , 2009 at 1:30 pm
I can’t see how your figures could be right here.
If it cost $67mill, then it would take 34 years to make back its cost at full occupancy. That’s not even accounting for maintenance, outgoings, and inflation. Depositing $67mill in a high interest savings account at a bank would yield more than double that. Maybe it cost 6.7mill?