Wired News: Giant Robot Imprisons Parked Cars

posted by   mblaster (217)   28 months ago (www.wired.com)

An example of how terms in a software license can trap you. The victims are people who park their cars in that garage in Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The Hoboken garage is a fully automated parking structure - if the robot shuts down, there is no practical way to manually remove parked vehicles. The software licence ended and the cars were trapped inside!