whoa (part 2)

I told you about how fascinated I was with this grandpa's parking skills.

Since then, he got a new van.

AND I learned how he doesn't hit the stairs...if you look closely at the photo, you'll see a ball hanging from the steps near his windshield, this is to tell him how close he is to the stairs.

Cool, yeah?!

whoa

I've seen this guy get out of his "stall" which is pretty impressive but I wanna know how this guy parks under the stairs...

parking

In Japan, there are parking elevators where they don't have enough space to put parking structures.

The neat thing about this is that you don't have to be good at parking your car.

The elevator usually has a turntable to spin your car around in the direction you need to be in to get out.

You just drive onto the turntable, it spins your car around and then you drive it onto the lift.

Then when you want to exit, I assume you give them a number or ticket and they bring the lift down with your car on it.

You back it out off the lift and it spins you again into the direction you need to exit.

While I was sitting at Kiln Coffee Shop, there was such a parking elevator scarily right next to the shop.

In this case, they had a curtain there for both the driver's privacy as well as those sitting in the shop.

Do you have parking elevators where you live? Are they similar to the ones in Japan?

p.s. if you want to see a short video, please click on the photo.

Have a nice weekend!