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Maybe we could even put a cheap wire overhead to supply electricity, that way we don't need heavy and expensive batteries.
by Gare 2y ago
Maybe we could even put a cheap wire overhead to supply electricity, that way we don't need heavy and expensive batteries.
- op00to 2y agoImagine if instead of roads we have some sort of low friction surface that also controls the direction of the vehicle. Some sort of metal rail. Then the vehicles could be larger, open to the public, and follow a set schedule!
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- dpkirchner 2y agoAnd they could have additional rails that branch off the road every few miles and run directly to a set of various businesses. The system would just need a way to allow individual trucks to leave and return as deliveries are made.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoI'll do you one better, use magnetic levitation so there's no friction at all. And build it in a vacuum pipe, so there's no air resistance either. I wonder why nobody else has thought of that yet? Such a mystery.
- euroderf 2y agoTrolley buses work this way. Sort of a halfway house between buses and trams.