| Most car washes these days have robotic tunnel | | | | cashiers to work behind the counter of the carwash. |
| operated systems. These systems have an array of | | | | This means they are looking for ways to go robotic in |
| sensors, which tell the machine where the car is as it | | | | that job category as well. |
| goes through. There are more robotics in the average | | | | Consider if you will the modern-day grocery store or |
| carwash than the winner of the Grand DARPA | | | | Wal-Mart and how they have robotic cashiers now |
| Challenge, which drove an unmanned ground vehicle | | | | that are fully automated. Although they do not work |
| through the desert. | | | | perfect, they come in handy if you only have a couple |
| Why are there so many robotic systems in the | | | | of items and the lines are long. Perhaps it is more of |
| modern-day carwash? Well, it is simple a good tunnel | | | | an issue of the perception of service at the carwash |
| carwash can clean a car every 45 seconds or less | | | | that is holding us back. |
| and two humans working at breakneck speed would | | | | The fact is however with the labor so tight and more |
| take at least two to three minutes. | | | | and more people wanting their car washes quicker |
| Now let's flash forward to the present day and the | | | | and for a lower price the modern-day carwash owner |
| unemployment of 4.7% in the United States of | | | | has really no choice but to go with a robotic cashier. |
| America. Car washes are now having trouble getting | | | | Please consider this in 2006. |