Parking
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If you've ever gotten snagged against a bicycle parked in a cramped space, chances are it was the handlebars that got you. FlipCrown is designed to keep that from happening, by allowing cyclists to flip their bars sideways when they park their bike.
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Trawling a multi-story car-park and then squeezing into a parking space can be a painstaking task. It would be much better if you could just drive into a car-park and leave your vehicle to do the rest. Well, that's exactly what BMW says its i3 research vehicle will let you do.
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The European V-Charge consortium is developing a system whereby users can just step out of their vehicle when they reach a public transit station, leaving the car to head off on its own to find a parking spot.
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Multi-story car parks are ubiquitous, ugly, and almost always uninteresting. Danish firm JAJA Architects hopes to do something about the latter with its Park 'N' Play project.
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Many cyclists don't like having the weight and clutter of a kickstand on their trusty steed. This generally doesn't pose a problem, although there are certainly times when it would be nice to be able to stand the bike up instead of leaning it against something. That's why Bicyclick was invented.
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Large-scale artworks are certainly in vogue at the moment. Recently we've seen giant puppets walking the streets of Liverpool and a giant solar-harvesting duck in Copenhagen. For his part, designer Rob Ley has created a huge car-park façade that changes color as the viewer moves around it.
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Nikki Sylianteng, living in New York City, is on a one-woman crusade to make parking signs more human-friendly, using a visual design approach and some late-night guerrilla tactics to help improve usability in her neighborhood.
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The "Ray" autonomous robotic car parking system at Düsseldorf Airport literally picks up your car in its arms and takes it away to park it. Hooked into the flight schedule database, it also knows when you are going to come back and ensures that your car is ready when you do.
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A team of students and professors recently unveiled a prototype of what they cite as the future of urban living. The micro-housing unit is set on wheels and can fit into a standard-sized parking space.
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Los Angeles-based architecture and design studio Anonymous Architects has completed a property which gives primacy to gas-guzzlers.
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Regular bike parking racks aren't really conducive to securing the frame and both wheels, using a single U-lock. Montreal inventor Peter Krantz, however, has designed a rack that is.
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Valeo recently introduced its Valet Park4U system, becoming one of the latest manufacturers to reveal its vision for self-parking cars. The Valet Park4U system eliminates the need for advanced car-to-lot communications, relying entirely on onboard systems.
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