Porsche is designing a $650 million, 57-storey highrise to go up in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Which isn’t that big of a deal. What is pretty insane, however, is the fact that the highrise will feature a robotic car elevator that takes condo owners directly to their door while still in the vehicle.

The above image, incidentally, is of Volkswagen’s 20-story robotic parking garage, because the Porsche highrise doesn’t exist yet. Here’s the building’s planned look, though:

I mean the car-elevator idea is crazy impractical, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t sound like a cool way to live:

After the resident pulls over and switches off the engine, a robotic arm that works much like an automatic plank will scoop up the car and put it into the elevator. Once at the desired floor, the same robotic arm will park the car, leaving the resident nearly in front of his front door.
The glass elevators will give residents and their guests unparalleled views of the city or of the ocean during their high-speed ride, expected to last 45 to 90 seconds.

The 57-story luxury tower will have 132 units. Smaller units will be allocated two parking spaces and larger ones will have four, with 284 robotic parking spaces in total. There will be three elevators.

Residents will be able to see their cars from their living rooms.

If nothing else, it’s a great security feature. It’s hard to steal cars on the 57th floor.

[Source: Geekologie]