Volkswagen’s Automated 20-Story Garage

19. May 2006, 0:28 UhrKevin

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Wish you had your neighbors 4 car garage? Well check out Volkswagen’s storage facility. This 20 story garage is located in Wolfsburg, Germany and is fully automated. The garage was designed to be automated to save space as well as prevent accidents caused by human error. In fact because of the automated design 20% less space is needed to store the vehicles. “In a fully automated procedure, your new car is brought down to you from one of the 20-story Car Towers. Large signboards in the Customer Center show you when your turn has come. Then, you’re handed the keys, your picture is taken, the glass doors open and your brand-new car appears. You’re all set to go.” More pictures are included below.

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12 comments:

  1. John | May 19th, 2006 6:00  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    Amazing, right out of the movie IRobot

     
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  3. Oliver | May 20th, 2006 10:57  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    Cool, I hope they introduce this kind of thing into normal car parking procedures.

     
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  5. Pete | June 12th, 2006 2:40  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    The last two pictures seem to be taken not in Wolfsburg but in Dresden.

     
  6. hautschi | June 12th, 2006 4:47  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    That’s correct. In Wolfsburg there are two towers and they are higher than the one in Dresden. I visited the “Autostadt” when I got my new Golf V and it was really exciting!

     
  7. Nobody | June 12th, 2006 8:18  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    And how long you have to wait for your car.. i imagine that it could be more than 3 minutes…
    and then there is a waiting queue of 10 people or more…

     
  8. hmmm! | June 12th, 2006 10:54  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    only brand new cars are stored in theses towers. they take your car out the day you are going to pick your new car.

     
  9. Anonymous | June 14th, 2006 6:39  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    as said before, the last two pictures show the so called “glassy manufactory” in dresden.

     
  10. BMF | June 16th, 2006 16:01  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    Hi,

    well, this is the car garage in Dresden :P The car garage in Wolfsburg has two of this high buildings ;)

    Greetz from Germany :D

     
  11. rak | June 27th, 2006 15:09  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    now that’s neat !
    I work in there and never thought that someone overseas would think of the Autostadt Towers being something like amazing :-) This shows how work can dis-amaze…

     
  12. Student | March 7th, 2007 3:26  Add karma Subtract karma  +0

    Hey, I need more pictures of this building(in Dresden as you say) and the one in Wolfsburg I have this school project of multy-story garage building.I tried to find something more in google, but couldn’t. Please help. Thanks.

     

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