AUTO PARK Ever get the creeps wandering around a deserted parking garage, trying to remember where you left your old jalopy? By late 1999, Hoboken, N. J., will become the first U.S. city to get a fully automated parking lot that could make hairpin turns and time-consuming searches for parking spots obsolete. Developed by Robotic Parking in Leetonia, Ohio, the garage will use an elaborate system of lifts and rails to raise cars off the ground floor and insert them into one of 324 parking slots without human intervention. Customers simply pull their cars into a special parking area, insert a smart card into a reader to identify themselves, then let the pulleys do the dirty work. When it's time to retrieve a car, the customer inserts the card again and waits for the car to appear. Gerhard Haag, president of Robotic Parking, guarantees customers that there will be no theft and says the new system holds twice as many cars as typical garages the same size. Best of all, no tipping.