Parking Garage Safety or Nightmares

You know the scene: the pretty young woman walks into the parking garage late at night. The music gets scary and the tempo faster. There’s no one else in the garage and the only sounds are her footsteps echoing on the concrete. Shadows flash by as she walks past parked cars. Your brain is screaming, Don’t go there!” She makes it into her car… and only then sees the villain appear in her rearview mirror from the back seat.

Fortunately, it’s only a movie. But, why are parking garages the location of so many scary scenes in the movies? If it’s not the bad guy in the back seat, it’s the car that runs down someone in the parking garage. Or, it’s the gang that appears from the shadows. There are plenty of variations on the parking garage nightmare.

The answer to the question is as simple as it is obvious: parking garages are simply not comfortable places for many people. That’s why they make such a popular setting to play on the viewers’ fears.

Parking garages, by their nature, don’t provide a sense of warmth or security. No matter how well lighted; there are always many shadows. There are the unidentifiable echoing sounds and often a coolness. Row-after-row of cars and columns and the lack of visual references create a sense of disorientation. Add claustrophobia to this list. In many ways
parking garages can induce the same feelings as going into a cave... not what most people care to do.

Compare all of this to a well lighted, street-level waiting area with windows and comfortable seats. Access is limited only to those with the right ticket. There’s the sound of humming machinery. However, that simply means your car is on its way to you. You’re waiting for your car in a facility with an automated parking system (APS) - like robotic valet parking.

With the APS, there are no shadows or dark corners. No searching for your car in an unfamiliar place. No strange echoes or uncomfortable feelings. And, no one has had access to your car, except you.

Look for moviemakers to stick with parking garages for their scary scenes. APS are apparently more suitable for heroes and villains to fight among the machinery (such as in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) while drivers and passengers wait safely and comfortably for their cars.

About Skyline Parking AG

Skyline Parking AG designs and supplies the most space-efficient and fastest fully automated parking systems. Skyline’s systems provide high returns while being an environmentally and user-friendly answer to the growing scarcity and cost of urban space, worldwide. The broad range of products, means that Skyline Parking has a solution for virtually any location, problem and requirement