Well, Germany was already testing this. And having it seen live personally on a vacation (we happened to take that road where this was tested by chance) - it just looked like a shitty version of a train…
Somewhere like North America I could see how it makes sense. There’s a lot more road infrastructure than rail, and this can be built over it fairly cheaply and easily.
These strike me as a much better plan than in-road wireless.
Though, I wonder what the durability of these are compared to the same you see in cities for trams. Big difference for those is the speed. Would they get worn away too fast? Can they economically make the cables extra thick/hard to compensate?
I mean regular trains do use them all the time and those can go like 80-320 km/h (or even faster in other countries) where as truck only go like 80-100 km/h in Germany.
I’m more concerned how much the amount of trucks wears them down compared to trains. You need many more trucks than trains for the same amount of goods and also trucks have a much higher frequency.
Let’s replace the road with something more durable! Iron should do the trick. Also if everything is attached, only 1 person really needs to drive! That would free up a lot of people’s time.
So an overhead wire would be better right? Then we could attach multiple trailers together, that would be neat !
Well, Germany was already testing this. And having it seen live personally on a vacation (we happened to take that road where this was tested by chance) - it just looked like a shitty version of a train…
https://ewaybw.de/en/technology/
Somewhere like North America I could see how it makes sense. There’s a lot more road infrastructure than rail, and this can be built over it fairly cheaply and easily.
These strike me as a much better plan than in-road wireless.
Though, I wonder what the durability of these are compared to the same you see in cities for trams. Big difference for those is the speed. Would they get worn away too fast? Can they economically make the cables extra thick/hard to compensate?
I mean regular trains do use them all the time and those can go like 80-320 km/h (or even faster in other countries) where as truck only go like 80-100 km/h in Germany.
I’m more concerned how much the amount of trucks wears them down compared to trains. You need many more trucks than trains for the same amount of goods and also trucks have a much higher frequency.
Let’s replace the road with something more durable! Iron should do the trick. Also if everything is attached, only 1 person really needs to drive! That would free up a lot of people’s time.
That’d be so neat!
busses are just mobile train cars change my mind
could even make the electric truck road separate from the normal road, for safety.