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Unless I'm missing something the car needs to have an engine, that's heavy enough to kill people, even at moderate speeds, no?
by VeejayRampay 10y ago
Unless I'm missing something the car needs to have an engine, that's heavy enough to kill people, even at moderate speeds, no?
- hx87 10y agoNot if you go all-electric. Motors are light, batteries are heavy, but battery packs give you much more packaging flexibility than an ICE engine.
- akira2501 10y agoTo an extent, but at those current draws, you do need integrated cooling in your battery packs.
- EGreg 10y agoBut the engine can be surrounded by a lot of SOFT components which cause deceleration. What happens is that the outer layer will give way and the other cars will not be harmed in this deceleration. ESPECIALLY since I imagine most of the collisions will actually be glancing or scraping ones. This is strictly better than a real hard outer shell as now. I guess the reason they haven't done it is that humans are required to be inside the car for now.