It is estimated that 56% of the world's population lives in urban areas and that by 2050 that will increase to 68%. A perennial problem in cities is the lack of parking, and it will likely only get worse. But it doesn't have to. Cities have buildings that are dedicated to retail, buildings that are dedicated to office space, and buildings that are dedicated to living quarters. Why not a building that is dedicated to parking?
You drop off your car on the ground floor and a valet drives it onto a freight elevator that will take the car to an empty parking spot further up in the tower. Those willing to pay a higher fee would have their cars left near the bottom of the building for quick retrieval; those who paid a lower fee would have to wait longer for their car. You could use a parking app to notify the valet when you'll be ready to pick up your car; or you could let them track your proximity by GPS. Either way, parking is condensed vertically, but you don't have to worry about walking through a dimly-lit parking garage trying to remember where you parked. And if we ever get flying cars, vertical parking structures will become a must.
Most cities would probably need a parking tower every few blocks, or so:
But in larger cities there might even be a whole block of parking buildings:
And, just for fun, the same prompt, but with Cthulhu:
These illustrations were drawn using Stable Diffusion 2.1.
