It Turns Out That Parking Is also a Technical Activity with a Legendary History of Nearly a Thousand

Parking lots, parking spaces and parking difficulties. For the parking problems that perplex people all the time, these are the topics of motorists after dinner. Naturally, many people generally believe that the parking industry is the product of modern society, no! NO! NO! In fact, parking is also a technical activity with an extraordinary legendary history of nearly a thousand years! The farthest from now is a car factory village in the north of Zhoukoudian Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. It is said that it was named as the parking place for Royal chariots during the Jin Dynasty more than 900 years ago. The car factory is the car yard.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the main means of transportation in China were mules and horse drawn cars with cloth awnings. Especially in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, in some places where merchants gathered and opera gardens stood, there appeared a special place for people to park cars. Beijing called it a car yard. In addition to parking cars, the handlebar rest and animal feeding were all in it. Similar parking lots appeared in Europe in the 19th century.

In the late 19th century, after Daimler and Mercedes Benz invented the car, there were no strict regulations on parking and no special parking area because there were few cars at that time. Basically, as long as you don't stop in the middle of the road, no one will take care of you. When Ford introduced the assembly line into the automobile manufacturing industry, the incredible speed of automobile spread rapidly all over the world. There are more cars on the street, so there is less space to park cars on the side of the road. How to find parking space in the narrow gap has gradually become a technical work.

There are more and more cars, and people park more and more freely, which has caused a lot of trouble to urban management. How was the problem of car parking effectively managed at that time? Fine was probably the simplest and most effective method that managers all over the world could think of at that time, so the police departments in some areas specially assigned some people and established a department dedicated to supervising and managing car parking on the street, whose main responsibility was to issue tickets for cars parked and placed indiscriminately. In 1932, a man named Carlton & middot; Kohler & middot; With the help of two university professors, a reporter from Carlton Cole Magee invented the world's first coin controlled parking timer, which is the prototype of today's meter. As soon as the meter took to the street, it was strongly opposed by a large number of car owners. After all, if you park for a long time, you have to pay a considerable parking fee by hour.

However, this measure was strongly supported by government departments, so meters were finally popularized all over the world. After all, the space on the roadside is limited. If you want to accommodate more vehicles, you must have more space. Therefore, the government began to try to divide some open spaces into parking areas, and the parking lots gradually took shape. However, a large area of open space is a small number after all.In addition, the car manufacturing technology at that time was far inferior to today. Under the rain and sun, the car was prone to all kinds of small problems. So someone proposed that it would be better to build a multi-storey closed parking building. For more than 19 years, the world's first known multi-storey parking lot was built, which is the La Salle hotel in Chicago. When the hotel was demolished in 1976, the parking lot was retained.

Unfortunately, the parking lot was demolished in 2005. However, building such a large parking garage requires a lot of money after all, so there is a simple version of automatic parking rack. This parking rack covers a small area, parks many vehicles, and is relatively simple to manufacture. Therefore, this automatic parking system can be seen everywhere in the United States in the 1920s-1940s. After World War II, with the popularity of cars all over the world, the construction of parking places has attracted more and more attention. The beautiful and safer multi-storey parking building is once again welcomed. Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, more advanced parking places such as computer-controlled automatic parking garage and robot parking garage continue to appear.

However, can high-tech parking really meet today's rapidly growing number of cars?.