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Smart Car Parking Solution

A little over a week ago, I was at the Smart House in Venice for a reception/fundraiser for an ongoing project by gallery mate Joel Tauber. Their soon to be released product, the Smart car, is going to be available in the U.S. in early 2008. It reminded me of an image I took a few years ago in Berlin, where the cars have been available for some time now.

The owner of the car parked it straight in on a street designated for parallel parking. Although the car fit, the owner got a ticket anyway. If these cars become popular, maybe the overabundance of compact spots in parking lots will be comfortably used. Most likely the owners of parking structures will see this as an opportunity to make the spaces even smaller. So goes progress.