Parking is becoming an issue in Dubai as density levels increase. This is not unlike Europe and increasingly the United States. People are comfortable doing their banking by machine why not park their cars by machine. Robotic parking systems are under development in many places these days.

The systems make a lot of sense as they save huge amounts of space vs. conventional parking garages. I'd look to car rental companies to be the first to develop around these systems because they can add systems to the vehicles themselves(i.e. GPS, Echo detection/location, etc.) that will assist the automated parking systems.

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