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Unfortunate Product Placement

In this Daily News story about a driver blowing a series of traffic lights before causing a fiery crash, I couldn’t help notice the banner for the “World’s First Automated Parking Facility,” from a company called Automotion, in the background of the singed Mercedes.

This was the first I had heard that my humble borough was to be home to such a remarkable contrivance. This bit of text seemed particularly ironic: “Working with a manufacturer that has over 90 automated parking projects worldwide, we have a proven system that delivers cars to their owners within 2 minutes…All without anyone touching the vehicle! No scratches, dings, or accusations of stolen personal items…Because no one ever touches the cars.”

Until they get out on the streets of Brooklyn, that is (and remember kids, it’s the traffic light cameras that we have worry about)…

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