add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, best, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Car compactor
Make those SUVs in "compact" spaces really compact! | |
Compact spaces are marked for a reason -- it's because they're smaller. However, SUV owners, not being content to pollute the world and take up more than a lane of traffic with their hunks of metal, often blithely park in a compact space, even though their cars are clearly hanging over the painted lines.
If you get two or three in a row like this, the person at the other end probably couldn't park a motorcycle in the space remaining, and the other cars are subject to scratches,dings, etc. The solution is a car compactor, a traveling gadget that could be mounted on the back of a pickup rather like a tow truck mechanism. It has two hunks of metal that slide on either side of the car and >>>>SQUEEZE<<<< it until it fits in the space allotted.
Parking Space Increaser
http://www.halfbake...20Space_20Increaser
Related idea. The people are clamouring for a device of this kind. [Monkfish, Nov 26 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
Annotation:
|
| |
Unfortunately, the car compacter+pickup assembly would probably take up an excess of one parking space, rendering its user a hypocrite. |
|
| |
Or you could clamp them. Either way. |
|
| |
Hehe... just saw this idea for the first time, and I gotta say I love it! But not just for SUVs. Chevy Pickup drivers are just as bad if not worse. Not only do they take up multiple parking spaces, they only go a little ways into the space before parking, then park at a horrible angle, which leaves their 8-ft bed sticking out into the lane obstructing traffic. Perhaps a simple plow would suffice to ram the rear end and straighten them out, *then* compact it sideways. Anyways, huge bun. [+] |
|
| |
Rather than huge amounts of steel, you could have a set of high tensile winches, that you'd wrap around said vehicle and squeeze it at various points along it until it was the right width/length. These could be carried in a small, compact sized 2-seater van, and powered via a pto and hydraulic pump. |
|
| |