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We obviously don't hang around the same people/age group. There is always at least one person in my circle of friends that needs a charger. Obviously 90% of t
by Spooks 10y ago
We obviously don't hang around the same people/age group. There is always at least one person in my circle of friends that needs a charger.
Obviously 90% of the time a phone could be used (though I don't agree it's faster than credit card tap, roughly the same speed) and a card can be used as backup, but it makes ditching a credit card completely not really an option.
- dghughes 10y agoI foresee an opportunity in the electric vehicle industry a giant quick charge truck for stranded or absentminded EV drivers.
- chillax 10y agohttp://www.plugincars.com/aaa-introduces-roadside-emergency-charging-electric-cars-107663.html http://www.plugincars.com/aaa-introduces-roadside-emergency-...
- dghughes 10y agoDang it! I'm ahead of my time but five years late.
- janekm 10y agoActually that would be really cool with self-driving cars, have a "tanker car" pull up next to you to extend the range for long-range "sorties"...
- andrewflnr 10y agoWhile you're driving, mid-air refueling style. Better make the link-up all in the same lane, though.
- cryptoz 10y agoAutonomous cars will already line up together to get the slipstream efficiency; take it an extra step further and you could have a battery tanker-truck up front giving everyone in the convoy a charge and also making their travel more efficient.
- Natanael_L 10y agoAnd share the energy from regenerative breaking downhill, and much more.
- Cerium 10y agoAt least, just like cyclists, they can rotate through who gets the front to equalize energy usage.
- drumdance 10y agoI was in New York during Hurricane Sandy. I was staying in a hotel and the power was out. The morning after the storm I went outside to see what was going on. There was a big CNN truck with a dish and a big crowd. I thought "maybe the mayor is speaking to the media" and walked over. Turns out the crowd was people charging their phone from the truck. CNN generously left the truck running there for a couple of days.
- Natanael_L 10y agoI foresee large-ish autonomous battery packs in the form of cars, rather than trucks, simply because they can go to more places at once.
- delecti 10y ago> There is always at least one person in my circle of friends that needs a charger If your social circle is anything like mine, it's not some person, it's always one, as in a single person who disproportionately is incapable of maintaining their phone. For the majority of people they're very reliable devices, so this is less "everyone will be inconvenienced sometimes" and more "a few people will be inconvenienced a lot". I recognize that it's still an issue, but those people can keep using cards while the rest of us benefit from tap-to-pay being the preferable option a majority of the time.