• Iron Lynx
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    481 year ago

    You’re still babying a car.

    What if you could, like, delegate the entire driving process to someone? It sounds outlandish to pay for a driver, so what if you and a lot of others got together to take one vehicle. Perhaps some specialised vehicle where, through an economy of scale, it makes sense for hundreds to be moved by one driver. And for this economy of scale, what if you get the vehicle to go to places that makes sense for many of you at once.

    It would make no sense for such a vehicle to be one rigid vehicle, so what if you instead make a chain of vehicles? Guidance of… let’s just call it an articulated hypercar… would be challenging, so what if you build a road for it, where you could build the guidance into it. Since the path is now very predictable, you could even optimise the interface between your vehicle and the path for rolling resistance and speed, and build an electricity supply directly in your hyperway.

    I just invented a train, didn’t I?

      • Iron Lynx
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        11 year ago

        No I’m not, but I’ll take this allegation as a compliment

        • A bird
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          11 year ago

          Ha, by the end of the paragraph I was reading it entirely in his voice.

          • @Kempeth@feddit.de
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            21 year ago

            I heard his voice starting at “economies of scale”. If you get past “articulated hypercar” then you must have never seen one of his videos.