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You seem pretty confident that no one can design a robust... plug? Set in concrete? Because of car tires and snow? Try having a little bit more faith in mechani

• mc32 3y ago
  Garbage trucks, delivery lorries loading and unloading in crowded places really wear and tear curbs. Have you ever seen pristine curbs in busy places (such as those where this would be practical?). Also very often people misjudge their car's clearance when pulling up and from time to time scrape the curb hard with the bottoms of their cars. And if it snows, a big snowplough coming through at night with diminished visibility almost invariably ends with torn up curbs. Maybe they plan on doing a lot of maintenance, otherwise this will end up not working.
• zdragnar 3y ago
  Road salt alone in a city with actual winters will destroy these things... Not to mention that they'll be pretty thoroughly encased in ice and buried under feet of snow for months on end. Add onto that it is a completely inaccessible design from a disability accessibility perspective, and you have a nice proof of concept for something that wouldn't pass muster in many places. It needs to go back to the drawing board on pretty much every level before it could be considered for deployment where I live, at least.