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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Or just like train locomotives, multiple drive or even push engines are controlled from a single engine. You can have some powered for acceleration and hill and then shut down when cruising.
I don't want big rigs going 20 mph, first shipping goods would cost a much more, and in many places everybody would have to go 20 and then there would be even more head on crashes from passing.
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Better to have multiple cars linked to a single engine... or to do car trains as some are proposing, using car-to-car peer networks and radar-guided cruise control.
Would be too...
socialist for some... but imagine how much fuel we could save? Radar-guided cruise control can already make this possible. All we need is failsafe measures for when the front car/driver experience terminal software/humanware problems.
I would very much like the ability to drive my car onto the highway and seamlessly merge into a passing mega-train... take my hands off the wheel... read a newspaper, eat breakfast, nap... then pull out of the train manually (the gap closing behind me as I go) at my exit to drive to my destination.