Feb 12, 2021 1:09 AM
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loth1c
looks like a mountain bike doesn't fit
bazza116
I like it, just because you can't take up a bike spot with an AD
Davincimode
Build it with windows or whatever above ground in the big cities in the US. People would pay just to watch it work. We like that stuff.
tcpolecat7
So what about when there is an inevitable error? Whe something breaks? Manual controls or overrides? I'm curious about the failsafes myself
binky4me
drkduckla360
Best part there is car versions of this
gerf
I tried to put in my trike, but it broke their machine. Now no one can get their bike until the service guy gets there in two days.
JayEnfield
"emission-free" my ass.
fireaza
FYI, these aren't exactly standard in Japan. I've only ever seen the ones that were regular-ass sheds and open parking lots.
Munchman347
In China they just shred your bike and issue a new one when you need it, because they have millions of scrap bikes...
BalaurBondoc101
Isn’t this just the door system they had at Monsters Inc?
qtRaven
I don't know... My experience with coke machines makes me not trust this.
Hiphop101ize
What happens when a person decides to try and go in there? Is there an escape? Probably can't ant have that state side
lanthanidehighway
good luck walking home when (not if) that fucker breaks.
ThatsProbablyInMyBag
Cool been in Japan for 15 years and have never seen one of these. Now for cars, yes.
Snodfather
Some bikes. In some places. Most of the time the bikes are shoved into an over crowded rack outside. And sometimes the rack is covered.
sirfanciesadrought
Seems like an awfully expensive and complicated machine.
DicksmackMcgee
https://www.theonion.com/earthquake-sets-japan-back-to-2147-1819569216
ramram70
Here's similar with sound of Jason Bourne theme starting.
ChocoladeMelkSnor
Damn, us Dutchies pretty much just throw ‘m onto a pile...
cainofdreaming
Could this also double as a daycare? Asking for a friend.
PictureArchiver
eco-cycle, you can’t reason with it, you can’t bargain with. It will store and retrieve your bike until you are dead! That is what it does 1
that is ALL it does!!!!
mercbrit
Imagine how big/ deep that would have to be in the Netherlands to store this lot.
Thecynicalspud
Yeah...not really widespread in Japan. Most are just undercover parking lots outside of train stations.
Isthataspooniseebeforeme
Ok, but that is not *how bikes are parked in Japan", it's a japanese system, with around 50 units in total. But good idea
BitRoyal
But how can we exoticize a foreign cultures if we don't consider their rare thing's universal?
How dare they be normal and not wonderfully exotic, they aught to get back in their cage
easywithit
Underground bike scene
dryrunner
Step one: lose a war to usa. Step two: relinquish responsibility of defense to usa. Step 3: use that money instead to live in scifi world.
johnmcclane112
Neah the Japanese boom ended many years ago, the raise of China stopped their ascension.
ilikehornets
Japan has one of the largest militaries tho, 4th largest navy for instance, "self-defence force"
ToastedVanilla
Sure, but they are not allowed to mobilize it anywhere and their budget is limited in the constitution.
Imagine what America could do with its defense budget.
NotifweJammit
Yeah just imagine! because that shit is what we have all been thinking for the last 5 aircraft carrier groups.
I hope people will be mature enough someday for mutual demilitarization. So many constructive things can be made instead of destructive ones
But I guess this thought is utopian. Cause there will always be an impending fear that another country is secretly increasing its arsenal.
IveGotToStopUsingThisUsername
It says it starts with a press of a button so how do you retrieve the right bike? Or do you just accept whatever it gives you?
taurondir
Its a slot machine game up top. You have to put in coins until you win your bike back. If you jackpot you get ALL THE BIKES
IceKarma
One imagines the *storage operation* starts with the press of a button, after identity and payment are taken care of...
InHarajuku
Hahaha “My last bike was okay but I hope I get a blue one this time”
guyanesebro420
I chuckled
ArtemisFolly
Probably prints a ticket with a magnetic strip. You insert the ticket and pay when you're picking up your bike. Like a parking ramp.
I dunno the first person who parked there just pressed the button and walked away. Doesn't look like she grabbed anything but her bag
GatoMamalon
Users access the system with an Integrated Circuit (IC) Card source:https://ecocycle.com/welcome
All the bikes are the same, its so you "rent" the bike, not park a particular bike
Where I live there's bike parkings where you can take a bike and leave it in a dif. parking of the same company for like $25 a year
AdhesiveJo
Yeah there are some with electric scooters too, really nice n handy
TheJellyfishh
No this is different
Rauca
Nope, they are also for personally owned bicycles.
You're right
alwaysthecheesegrater
https://www.giken.com/en/products/automated-parking-facilities/eco-cycle/how-to-use-eco-cycle/
That doesn't explain how the machine knows which bike is whose.
Linkehh
In Japan, bicycles are registered to a person, with their own license plates and stuff. The system probably uses that data
From what I gather, they have prepaid public transportation (and much more) cards that they would swipe to tell the machine who they are.
ElForShort
Takes 2 months to build in Japan. That's about 5 years converted to European construction speed.
Woestkonijn
We had them before Japan. Across het IJ in Amsterdam at the Buiksloterweg, parking Tolhuisplein.
MonsieurToastt
For real?
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
Takes "some"
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
and 2 days after completion some kid would get stuck inside
IbecomeaSchnitzelplease
And they would close it and tell us they work on the Problem and it never opens up ever again because the budget is gone.
Natzsays
[ laughs in Latin America ]
malakim
Or about 23 years in Berlin
nowyouvedoneit
It took 30 years of complaining, 10 years of planning, and 5 years to build a standard two lane overpass in my city. It's still not done.
Dontdeprivemeofmydelusion
If government funded, a few decades in the US.
7Spades
Hi, I'm from the Netherlands, can we order 10k of these for Amsterdam alone? That city has more bikes than people
EggFooYung
I thought that was what the canal was for.
fakezilla
In Brazil it would cost at least 3m and increased to 5m in 3 years before getting canceled for corruption.
JimFromSnowyRiver
And 8.5 in American
BrendonB
Japan had a sink hole in the middle of an intersection and fixed it in like 48 hours
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_582b41cce4b0e39c1fa665e0 well, not 48 hours, but faster than years.
Nacon
...and 12 years for USA.
ProjectDA
you mean 12 freedom celebrations
MarioBoon
I call bullshit on the 2 months. It prolly takes so long just to dig and construct the hole.
VitaminJay
Next up on: 'Spin The Wheel Of European Stereotypes'...
mike8464
Feel free to correct where applicable,good luck.
UsualLoser
Mostly built because Japanese are unable to park their bikes properly with respect for others (I live here, they park at the shop door)
Also this is not how it is made, it is one single place in Tokyo (Kōnan, Shinagawa station), so impractical and expensive it was a one shot
noideawhatusername
Hah! In 5 years here (Scandinavia) the project would still be in planning by people with fancy work titles, and budget already spent twice!
LoftheDesert
Gothenburg will never be finished!
chapitaine
Sounds like Canada to me
TheHaGuy
Ha!
Wait, i thought only Romania had it that bad, damn.
https://www.klikk.no/historie/sloseriombudsmannen-177-millioner-til-ingenting--haraldrud-6836485 Check out this gem!
loth1c
looks like a mountain bike doesn't fit
bazza116
I like it, just because you can't take up a bike spot with an AD
Davincimode
Build it with windows or whatever above ground in the big cities in the US. People would pay just to watch it work. We like that stuff.
tcpolecat7
So what about when there is an inevitable error? Whe something breaks? Manual controls or overrides? I'm curious about the failsafes myself
binky4me
drkduckla360
Best part there is car versions of this
gerf
I tried to put in my trike, but it broke their machine. Now no one can get their bike until the service guy gets there in two days.
JayEnfield
"emission-free" my ass.
fireaza
FYI, these aren't exactly standard in Japan. I've only ever seen the ones that were regular-ass sheds and open parking lots.
Munchman347
In China they just shred your bike and issue a new one when you need it, because they have millions of scrap bikes...
BalaurBondoc101
Isn’t this just the door system they had at Monsters Inc?
qtRaven
I don't know... My experience with coke machines makes me not trust this.
Hiphop101ize
What happens when a person decides to try and go in there? Is there an escape? Probably can't ant have that state side
lanthanidehighway
good luck walking home when (not if) that fucker breaks.
ThatsProbablyInMyBag
Cool been in Japan for 15 years and have never seen one of these. Now for cars, yes.
Snodfather
Some bikes. In some places. Most of the time the bikes are shoved into an over crowded rack outside. And sometimes the rack is covered.
sirfanciesadrought
Seems like an awfully expensive and complicated machine.
DicksmackMcgee
https://www.theonion.com/earthquake-sets-japan-back-to-2147-1819569216
ramram70
Here's similar with sound of Jason Bourne theme starting.
ChocoladeMelkSnor
Damn, us Dutchies pretty much just throw ‘m onto a pile...
cainofdreaming
Could this also double as a daycare? Asking for a friend.
PictureArchiver
eco-cycle, you can’t reason with it, you can’t bargain with. It will store and retrieve your bike until you are dead! That is what it does 1
PictureArchiver
that is ALL it does!!!!
mercbrit
Imagine how big/ deep that would have to be in the Netherlands to store this lot.
Thecynicalspud
Yeah...not really widespread in Japan. Most are just undercover parking lots outside of train stations.
Isthataspooniseebeforeme
Ok, but that is not *how bikes are parked in Japan", it's a japanese system, with around 50 units in total. But good idea
BitRoyal
But how can we exoticize a foreign cultures if we don't consider their rare thing's universal?
Isthataspooniseebeforeme
How dare they be normal and not wonderfully exotic, they aught to get back in their cage
easywithit
Underground bike scene
dryrunner
Step one: lose a war to usa. Step two: relinquish responsibility of defense to usa. Step 3: use that money instead to live in scifi world.
johnmcclane112
Neah the Japanese boom ended many years ago, the raise of China stopped their ascension.
ilikehornets
Japan has one of the largest militaries tho, 4th largest navy for instance, "self-defence force"
ToastedVanilla
Sure, but they are not allowed to mobilize it anywhere and their budget is limited in the constitution.
dryrunner
Imagine what America could do with its defense budget.
NotifweJammit
Yeah just imagine! because that shit is what we have all been thinking for the last 5 aircraft carrier groups.
sirfanciesadrought
I hope people will be mature enough someday for mutual demilitarization. So many constructive things can be made instead of destructive ones
sirfanciesadrought
But I guess this thought is utopian. Cause there will always be an impending fear that another country is secretly increasing its arsenal.
IveGotToStopUsingThisUsername
It says it starts with a press of a button so how do you retrieve the right bike? Or do you just accept whatever it gives you?
taurondir
Its a slot machine game up top. You have to put in coins until you win your bike back. If you jackpot you get ALL THE BIKES
IceKarma
One imagines the *storage operation* starts with the press of a button, after identity and payment are taken care of...
InHarajuku
Hahaha “My last bike was okay but I hope I get a blue one this time”
guyanesebro420
I chuckled
ArtemisFolly
Probably prints a ticket with a magnetic strip. You insert the ticket and pay when you're picking up your bike. Like a parking ramp.
IveGotToStopUsingThisUsername
I dunno the first person who parked there just pressed the button and walked away. Doesn't look like she grabbed anything but her bag
GatoMamalon
Users access the system with an Integrated Circuit (IC) Card source:https://ecocycle.com/welcome
GatoMamalon
All the bikes are the same, its so you "rent" the bike, not park a particular bike
GatoMamalon
Where I live there's bike parkings where you can take a bike and leave it in a dif. parking of the same company for like $25 a year
AdhesiveJo
Yeah there are some with electric scooters too, really nice n handy
TheJellyfishh
No this is different
Rauca
Nope, they are also for personally owned bicycles.
GatoMamalon
You're right
alwaysthecheesegrater
https://www.giken.com/en/products/automated-parking-facilities/eco-cycle/how-to-use-eco-cycle/
IveGotToStopUsingThisUsername
That doesn't explain how the machine knows which bike is whose.
Linkehh
In Japan, bicycles are registered to a person, with their own license plates and stuff. The system probably uses that data
alwaysthecheesegrater
From what I gather, they have prepaid public transportation (and much more) cards that they would swipe to tell the machine who they are.
ElForShort
Takes 2 months to build in Japan. That's about 5 years converted to European construction speed.
Woestkonijn
We had them before Japan. Across het IJ in Amsterdam at the Buiksloterweg, parking Tolhuisplein.
MonsieurToastt
For real?
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
Takes "some"
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
and 2 days after completion some kid would get stuck inside
IbecomeaSchnitzelplease
And they would close it and tell us they work on the Problem and it never opens up ever again because the budget is gone.
Natzsays
[ laughs in Latin America ]
malakim
Or about 23 years in Berlin
nowyouvedoneit
It took 30 years of complaining, 10 years of planning, and 5 years to build a standard two lane overpass in my city. It's still not done.
Dontdeprivemeofmydelusion
If government funded, a few decades in the US.
7Spades
Hi, I'm from the Netherlands, can we order 10k of these for Amsterdam alone? That city has more bikes than people
EggFooYung
I thought that was what the canal was for.
fakezilla
In Brazil it would cost at least 3m and increased to 5m in 3 years before getting canceled for corruption.
JimFromSnowyRiver
And 8.5 in American
BrendonB
Japan had a sink hole in the middle of an intersection and fixed it in like 48 hours
BrendonB
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_582b41cce4b0e39c1fa665e0 well, not 48 hours, but faster than years.
Nacon
...and 12 years for USA.
ProjectDA
you mean 12 freedom celebrations
MarioBoon
I call bullshit on the 2 months. It prolly takes so long just to dig and construct the hole.
VitaminJay
Next up on: 'Spin The Wheel Of European Stereotypes'...
mike8464
Feel free to correct where applicable,good luck.
UsualLoser
Mostly built because Japanese are unable to park their bikes properly with respect for others (I live here, they park at the shop door)
UsualLoser
Also this is not how it is made, it is one single place in Tokyo (Kōnan, Shinagawa station), so impractical and expensive it was a one shot
noideawhatusername
Hah! In 5 years here (Scandinavia) the project would still be in planning by people with fancy work titles, and budget already spent twice!
LoftheDesert
Gothenburg will never be finished!
chapitaine
Sounds like Canada to me
TheHaGuy
Ha!
johnmcclane112
Wait, i thought only Romania had it that bad, damn.
noideawhatusername
https://www.klikk.no/historie/sloseriombudsmannen-177-millioner-til-ingenting--haraldrud-6836485 Check out this gem!