For my data structure class, I am trying to write a program that simulates a car wash and I want to give fancy cars a higher priority than regular ones using a priority queue. The problem I am having has something to do with Java not being able to type cast "Object" as an "ArrayQueue" (a simple FIFO implementation). What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

public class PriorityQueue<E>
{

    private ArrayQueue<E>[] queues;
    private int highest=0;
    private int manyItems=0;


    public PriorityQueue(int h)
    {
        highest=h;
        queues = (ArrayQueue[]) new Object[highest+1];   <----problem is here
    }


    public void add(E item, int priority)
    {
        queues[priority].add(item);
        manyItems++;
    }


    public boolean isEmpty( )
    {
        return (manyItems == 0);
    }


    public E remove()
    {
        E answer=null;
        int counter=0;

        do
        {
            if(!queues[highest-counter].isEmpty())
            {
                answer = queues[highest-counter].remove();
                counter=highest+1;
            }
            else
                counter++;
        }while(highest-counter>=0);

        return answer;
    }
}