A few weeks ago I was in NYC with my dad and brother. While hunting for a parking spot (a sport for New Yorkers more competitive than ultimate fighting), I started to think about the future of parking in big cities where space is at a constant premium. People can continually build skyscrapers taller because they also make faster elevators (as well as elevators that only server certain floors) in order to make workers commutes manageable. The only reason taking an elevator to the 57th floor is not a burden is because the elevator only goes to floors 50-80, so you don’t have to stop 50 times on the way up. With car garages, that doesn’t work the same way. Can you imagine if you had to drive up to the 57th floor of a parking garage to find a spot? It would take all day to get up, and you’d be seasick from going in circles. I began pondering, and ultimately came up with a car elevator type system which is remarkably similar to something that someone else apparently already came up with. Although this means I clearly wasn’t the first one to think of it, it is good to know my half baked ideas aren’t totally half baked.

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