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Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? (www.euronews.com)
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[–] 47 points 4 months ago (10 children)

It's like solar roadways, except once again trains are the natural evolutionary end point

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

    Musk will do it better with tunnels full of self driving cars that are recharged in real time from the solar panel roads they are driving on!

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Nah, the tunnel needs to be surrounded by magnets that induce a current in the Tesla as it drives through. That current can then be used to charge the Tesla.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Ok but now my brain is thinking we may as well strip it down as much as possible, just use the magnets to move metal boxes with wheels like a railgun

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    No. This would require the driver to keep the car perfectly aligned... Unless...
    What if we used some sort of auto-steering system. Like, if the wheels had no ability to go anywhere other than the track.
    And metal wheels on a metal road is going to have the least friction and least wear and... oh fuck we just re-invented trains

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's like carcinization, the tendency for everything to evolve into a crab body plan.

    Railinization? The tendency for every hare brained tech idea that touches transportation to evolve into railroads?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    trains are just arthropods with wheels instead of legs.

    • Body consists of a hard shell rather than a skeleton ✅
    • Multiple locomotory limbs ✅
    • Small limbs at the front of the face ✅
    • Smooth top, greebles on the bottom ✅
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