How the hell is this supposed to work?

[SkyNigger]

New condo building in Bangkok.



In my Valley apartment in Brisbane, there was a car elevator but it only went one floor. How the fuck is this supposed to work? I tried Google but couldn't find anything.

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	Outside Brisbane elevators have more than 2 floors.
	Really?

[Bobby Wong]

its a trick bro they will park your car there for you but you will never be able to get it out without a crane they keep it as a security deposit and you get it back after you move out and have the carpets shampooed

[anatine]

they are ghost cars.



for the ghosts.

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ah hell nah!

[nextlevelshit]

Optical illusion. David Copperfield making the statute of liberty disappear type technology.

I wonder how you could fuck it up if you had a high powered sports car and were roaring drunk. Foot slipped off clutch...

[SkyNigger]

So basically no one has a clue?

pretty impressive, would work along the lines of drive car into lift to > lift goes to your apartment > drive car out of lift > enter apartment.

lets say each floor has 4 apartments therefore there would be 4 car lift shafts one for each apartment on each floor.

out of interest how much would a skilled worker on one of these high end developments expect to earn? not that i am looking for a job or anything but its interesting to think about the difference between workers who do the same job in different countries.

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

Not having a clue (yet genuinely curious) I asked my friend Mike (retired Electrical Engineer who spent over 40 years working for Lockheed) his opinion, and gave the picture you posted, and he said it's likely there is a chute/elevator/lift built onto the side of the building which the cars back into and out of. It seems simple enough, and when I pressed about the added weight of the vehicles he stated with a curb weight of not more than 4k lbs the vehicles themselves (presuming not more than 4 or 8 per floor) really would not add much in the way of weight in relation to the weight of the steel and concrete used for each floor.

My theory is that only the penthouses have this luxury, it is not available to every single condo, my presumption based on the fact that elevators designed to transport something very heavy and very valuable (and also inherrantly very dangerous if anything gets weird/ustable) are typically very slow, and rich people hate waiting for things like elevators moving their cars. Mike says it's not feasible for there to be more than 1 chute per side of the building, so you could be on the top floor and literally waiting hours while the people below you also wait in line to get your car out. I just do not see this happening, thus it's much more logical that only the best of the best enjoy such a unique luxury.

As I hate leaving questions half answered (or, in this case, pretty much guessed at) I decided to just go to the source and emailed admin@bkkcondo.com, will copy and paste a more official response when I have one, so far I got the following:

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10:00 PM (41 minutes ago)

to me
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[rum dick]

The balconies are overrated carports and there is a single elevator dedicated to ferrying the cars to and from the street and the respective balconies. Look closely and you can see the freight elevator doors. But if your question is how the fuck are people gonna put up with the wait until it's their turn to use the elevator (especially during rush hour) then the answer is its gonna be messy and someone will up end getting shot.

[rum dick]

Really... guys... car elevators aren't some cutting edge technology and they can put the chute pretty much anywhere they want. Mitt Romney has a three car elevator in his garage in la jolla which would be reason enough to vote for him but for the whole member of the mormon cult, two or three scotus picks, king of dorks thing that douche was a rocking.

[Hillbilly Jim]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rum Dick

The balconies are overrated carports and there is a single elevator dedicated to ferrying the cars to and from the street and the respective balconies. Look closely and you can see the freight elevator doors. But if your question is how the fuck are people gonna put up with the wait until it's their turn to use the elevator (especially during rush hour) then the answer is its gonna be messy and someone will up end getting shot.

i knew this as soon as i saw the door behind the car, i didnt answer as i was afraid it would break sccoters heart that i figured it out before him