Re:Why car wheels are so flat these days
by mensetmanusman on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @09:54AM
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It probably makes more sense then a huge infrastructure build of giant maser units that would have to be able to simultaneously track hundreds of vehicles on every dense street corner and then you would have to put up mitigation for all the reflective power losses going through windows into peoples houses.
I'm looking forward to the day where beamed power (e.g., MASER) will allow us to ditch most of the batteries too, with a tow trailer battery pack for trips into the deep country. It makes no sense to me to accelerate and decelerate over a ton of battery pack and have to deal with so much regeneration loss when we could just have overhead beamers optically track vehicles and cut power whenever a stray bird enters the picture.