[HN Gopher] No more trip hazards: safe in-pavement electric car ...
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No more trip hazards: safe in-pavement electric car charging system
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Author : edward
Score : 5 points
Date : 2024-08-21 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| soared wrote:
| > dig small trench in sidewalk > fill with cheap pliable plastic
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| Definitely will not create permanent tripping hazards in the
| future. Why not design the cords like a very small speed bump
| with tapered edges so people can walk/wheel over them? Over
| design flat cords?
| natpalmer1776 wrote:
| Because that's not worth large capital investment.
| HocusLocus wrote:
| The only reason people are clicking on this they because they are
| dreaming of an inductive charging system. This is not the droid
| they are looking for.
|
| The Inverse Square Law is coming for your charging efficiency and
| will take no prisoners. 6G will be everything connected by wires
| once again as if they discovered it yesterday. It'll be funny!
| throwaway22032 wrote:
| Wouldn't it be substantially cheaper to basically just grind a
| channel into the pavement and then have people charging put a
| rubber mat on top of it? I feel like I could do this in a couple
| of hours with the tools in my garage.
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| You don't need the rubber bumps to be literally zero height, a
| few mm is fine, you just don't want it to be a big effort to get
| over with a pram/wheelchair.
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| Looking at it holistically though, it's probably the wrong place
| to optimize anyway because in practice most streets picked at
| random will have more obstacles in the way of wonky tiling due to
| subsidence or weathering of a pavement that's 50, 100, etc years
| old.
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