| It's not just cars but the whole system built around them that is completely out of date. If we want a really high tech transportation system it will be vastly more feasible in a greenfield city design that is a somewhat radical departure from typical assumptions. Instead of 3000-4000 pound 7-10 passenger vehicles which more often than not carry one occupant, most vehicles should be very small and single passenger. So decrease the size of the vehicles by 10X. These vehicles should not share the same physical space with pedestrians. Especially not in the current scenario where physics ensures severe injury or death in the event of a collision at any speed. Vehicles should be fully autonomous. They should not need to drag their fuel around but rather have electricity supplied wirelessly. There should be multiple levels of infrastructure so that even in dense areas you can be delivered almost door to door. I have a lot of other ideas. Such as, buildings should be public megastructures designed to provide infrastructure for modular smaller buildings inside, with some open spaces and landscaping as well as reconfigurability. They would not need to provide a perfectly climatized space but try to make the baseline more comfortable. |
Wireless electricity?
Been reading some of those nutty Tesla books again?
He was brilliant .. but not everything he wrote is feasible/smart :)