I assume it knows it is "your car" by the ___location where it dropped it, not by reading license plates or some other form of id. This would make moving cars around a little trickier, though I guess you could always keep the latest ___location.
I wonder if it optimizes for your return. This is, if a person is not returning until 5 days from now, maybe that car can be moved farther out in the parking lot to make room for cars of people who are returning "soon."
Basically, all cars would be placed "far away" and then slowly move to the front.
Maybe it's a "small" airport and this is not needed.
At 6MPH and, I'm assuming, a non-trivial time for even "loading" and "unloading" a car, I would not be at all surprised that the total time it would spend reracking cars would end up being significantly longer than just leaving them where they are and taking the extra time to fetch them.
Yeah, particularly if humans also park in the same spaces. I thought after posting that if the robot knows a space is available far away, then maybe by the time it gets there the space is taken by a human! :-)
I can envision tons of opportunities to mess with this robot.
I wonder if it optimizes for your return. This is, if a person is not returning until 5 days from now, maybe that car can be moved farther out in the parking lot to make room for cars of people who are returning "soon."
Basically, all cars would be placed "far away" and then slowly move to the front.
Maybe it's a "small" airport and this is not needed.