An automatic car parking system, the first of its kind in Vietnam ,was put into operation at the Thao Dien building in Binh Thanh districtof Ho Chi Minh City on May 10.
Covering an area of just 66 sq.m, the three-storey car parking facility is capable of accommodating 12 cars of 5-7 seats.
Nguyen Thi Bao Quynh, director of the NMC Co. Ltd., which built thefacility, said the system was constructed at a cost of over 300,000 USD.The company will build a similar system, capable of keeping 200 cars,for a business in Hanoi .
Automatic car parking system isconsidered as an ideal solution for major cities in Vietnam as itscapacity is 2-20 times as high as a normal one if they are built on thesame area of land./.