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Wow it transports 20 people. ooooh I have an idea, what if we connected a bunch of these together... in a long chain and put them on tracks to make them more energy efficient (and to meet power needs) then ran them along the most popular transportation corridors in major cities! They could even go in tunnels in places like NYC to reduce traffic!
Golly Elon is on to something this time!
Also, apparently it's supposed to do wireless inductive charging.
If they do induction charging there will need to be a thing that lowers the coils onto the charging pad to get it close enough to not waste tons and tons of power.
And if you are going to do all that why not just plug the damn thing in and have almost no loss?
I’m curious what kind of strength magnetic field would be generated for charging at that scale too. Would that be unsafe for people with ferrous implants or devices?
Maybe it’s fine, I genuinely don’t know.
Not really sure on that front, wrong flavor of math for me. I think it's safe to say that it'd waste a lot of energy as heat, given that lots of fast wireless chargers for phones have a fan built in.
@andrewfeeney @futurebird @johntimaeus maybe it simultaneously charges your Neuralink?
@andrewfeeney @futurebird @johntimaeus and does it still work at all, even very loss-y, if it’s raining or snowing? Or if it’s, you know, August and the road surface temp is already like 120°?
@futurebird @johntimaeus A real shame nobody has solved this problem before
Both the concept vehicles they showed off have basically no ground clearance (like can't get over a speed bump). But efficiency and such isn't really an issue since they'll never see the light of day anyway.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-tesla-cybercab-no-charging-plug
They have very little clearance for a car... but they have to have at least 8" ...
They don't need 8 inches to run around the Time-Warner studio lot.
@futurebird @johntimaeus
I guess if you can do a quick charge at every bus stop while passengers are getting on then it might be worthwhile. Usual idea is to have loop embedded in ground along parking spot.