Comment by Mattasher
9 years ago
Giant hole opens up in street with no gate around it. Have they actually spent time thinking about this or is this a joke?
9 years ago
Giant hole opens up in street with no gate around it. Have they actually spent time thinking about this or is this a joke?
there is cool new technology called a "barrier" that could be used
Indeed. They might want to have included that in the video if they were suggesting this as an actual project and not a toy vision.
This is a mock up. Do you seriously think they forgot to ask the question "what about the giant hole in the ground"? lol
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then the vehicle on a tray is accelerated up to high speed inside a tunnel without its axles or body being secured onto the carrier.
Then a vast network of these tunnels is somehow posited.
I don't think reality was one of the constraints applied to this concept.
> without its axles
electric hub motors would work here quite easily.
hub motors?.. no, my point was: what is stopping the car from flying off the carrier?