The technology behind a parking deck slated to be built near downtown Raleigh could someday open the door for driverless vehicles and taxis in the Triangle, as autonomous vehicles prepare to hit city streets in Charlotte. A short walk south of downtown Raleigh sits an empty field at 130 Kindley Street, adjacent to the recently constructed Mira Apartments. There, the city has approved the permitting for a 228-space parking deck that will add to the greater Gateway Corridor project, a section of land poised for redevelopment near the Martin Marietta Center and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Other WRAL Top Stories What makes the garage different, though, is its autonomous technology that doesn't require operators to park or retrieve vehicles. The garage runs on automatic, "robotic" technology using industrial automation company Siemens. Drivers enter their cars into a loading bay, then onto a pallet, and operate a kiosk where the the garage system parks the car for the driver by itself. The system works for all cars, including ones without a driver. Robbie Ferris, one of the developers behind the project at SfL+a Architects, touted the benefits of the garage's environmental and sustainability impacts. "Every space in the 228-space facility will be capable of providing EV charging, creating a significant concentration of charging capacity in the city’s urban core. This directly supports the City’s Community Climate Action Plan, which identifies transportation as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and calls for expanded EV infrastructure," Ferris says. Funding for the garage incorporated C-PACE financing, which according to the EDPNC, allows property owners to finance eligible energy, water, and resiliency improvements Ferris also acknowledged the technology for the garage is "adaptable to future autonomous vehicle technologies." "We've had talks on the perimeter" AUTOParkit, the technology company implementing the mechanical system for the