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I believe you're over-thinking it. You don't need to install it in your floor, you could simply place it on top of your floor. And it's not that hard to make i
by josephwegner 12y ago
I believe you're over-thinking it. You don't need to install it in your floor, you could simply place it on top of your floor.
And it's not that hard to make it easy for people to line up - modern docks use a sort of fuzzy connector that doesn't need to lock in perfectly, just as long as you are within a certain range.
The roomba is the best example that I can think of for this - I can pretty much set my roomba down anywhere roughly on the dock, and it will start charging. I could definitely park my car with the same accuracy.
- EC1 12y agoI honestly have no idea how you don't see this as an awful idea. Not only do I not want to aim my car into the garage in the first place, now I have to aim within some range again? Definitely want to just park and have a snake extend into my car to charge, not some large clunky floor piece carrying the weight of my entire car.
- cmsmith 12y agoThe roomba achieves this through rather large contact pads on the base of the charger, which scaled up to car-size would be about 50cm across. What happens when my cat walks under my car and onto a large metal plate with a few kW of power flowing through it?