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Smart Roads for Smart Cars

Discussion in 'Prime Main Forum (2017-2022)' started by Old Bear, Apr 12, 2018.

  1. Old Bear

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    Bloomberg recently published a very interesting article about the development of a "smart road" prototype in China.

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    China’s Built a Road So Smart It Will Be Able to Charge Your Car
    The road of the future is likely to become the brain and nerve center of an autonomous-driving revolution.

    The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers as the nation tests an “intelligent highway” that could speed the transformation of the global transportation industry.    ​

    Read the full article here: China’s Built a Road So Smart It Will Be Able to Charge Your Car - Bloomberg
     
    #1 Old Bear, Apr 12, 2018
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    Is this the same road that is solar powered? That people are stealing bits of it by literally cutting chunks of the road off in strips?
     
    #2 SaraBBrown94, Apr 12, 2018
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    you have to start somewhere, but charging on the go is a long way off. long.
     
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    Ha, so it's not yet smart enough, let's hope it doesn's soon self enforce, force.

    Walmart is offering robot bees to pollinate, China is offering smart roads, and we are dismantling the EPA, and Privatizing Schools, hmm, I sense the winds of change rising.
     
    #4 Lucifer, Apr 12, 2018
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