The Japanese has done it again!
Another crazy idea that actually works well. The bike tree. They’ve done it with car parking, ree-packaging them after you park them, for more efficient parking. Now they’ve done it with bikes. You put your bike into a slot in the ground, infront o what looks like an elevator. Swipe your “parking card” and a robotic arm comes to pick up your bike to store it efficiently in “the bike tree”. When you come back to get it you swipe it again and ater 30 seconds the arm brings it back to you. Smart indeed, but I wonder how many people would make the effort to actually do it, when you can just park it on the street.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/nov/05/bicycles-japan-bike-tree
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