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"Roads will be unavailable between 6pm and 8pm due to scheduled maintenance, we need to install updates and reboot the road after the recent security breach that enabled unauthenticated attackers to mine bitcoin on intersections where turn signals are validated by smart contracts"
I think modern-day sci-fi authors should use these implications of these awesome, lesser-known technologies as scene/plot/conflict ideas in short stories and novels! And I'm writing a hard sci-fi novel set in 2100, so...do I have your permission to use a similar scenario?
"Roads, where we're going we don't need roads!"
@@TheTravelerww *If* flying cars get developed, that'll happen someday.
Edit: That line itself is AWESOME!
Back in my day the roads were as dumb as dirt!!!
Millennials will never believe that there used to be dirt roads. LOL.
As they should be.
"Smart" tech makes stupid people.
In my day, roads were made of dirt.
@@JackHaveman52 You realize that the youngest Millenials are in their 20s now, right?
@@Logan912
Always someone in the crowd that wants to wreck the joke. Don't take things so seriously. The day will pass by in a much more pleasant manner.
1950s: The future is flying cars.
2020s: The future is flying R O A D S.
Steven The future is the future
@@jayi31 Idiots with flying cars..
Is that realy a smart idea?
At this moment there are still to many people that drive drunk.
Well roads are still full of potholes in 2019 lol
FLYING _FREAKIN_ ROADWAYS!!!
Forget flying roads and cars. In the near future, we'll have flying money. Money that'll fly out of our pocket without our knowledge.
"I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but I'm sure WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones". -- A. Einstein.
I want my roads smart enough to clear snow on their own.
If the Roads can power cars. Then I think we can make Heated roads to remove snow and Black Ice. ;)
@@eldrenofthemist2492 It makes no sense. It takes so much energy to melt ice, it's much more energy efficient to just push the snow to the side. If we had magical unlimited green energy, then yes, but we unfortunately don't have that.
Roads don't need to be smart to clear snow and ice they just need heaters to keep them above freezing temperature. This is very easy to do with existing technology but I am certain you would balk at the amount of tax money they would need to allocate to install such a system on just a few miles of road and would continue to about the cost of running power stations to provide enough energy to keep the road clear of snow and ice through an entire winter.
@@PurpleRhymesWithOrange too much energy loss.
Don't worry the induction chargers will melt your snow, wasting power all the time
I was immediately concerned that this was some new relaunch of "solar freakin' roadways"... thank god it's not!
Same here, i hold mi like until the end.
These aren't much better. Maybe we should complete our switch over to fully renewable non-polluting energy sources before we start wasting 60-80% on wireless transfer, it's just a thought.
Smart road sensors break and can't be easily replaced and when they are running they are a privacy nightmare.
Lastly do you know what ALSO heats up roadways and re-melts the asphalt? The freaking sun and if the sun isn't shining good old fire will do the job.
These are all bad ideas made worse by embedding them in the road.
@@npiper good point. A vehicle fire on such a road would be like a small fire in an office ceiling burning up all the network & power cables in their troughs in the ceiling! Irreparable??
@@npiper Talk for yourself, my country is almost 100% renewable energy.
Solar. Freaking. Roadways.
Not a fan of wireless car charging, wireless charging on phones only achieves ~70% or so despite coils being millimeters apart, efficiency is going to be horrible with plates riding at least a few centimeters off the road to avoid crashing into pebbles. Also, a loaded coil traversing a magnetic field creates drag proportional to the energy being transferred, so I'm not sure dragging a coil through a row of electromagnets (basically a linear motor operating as a generator) can transfer more energy than the energy needed to propel the car through it. The only places I can imagine wireless charging making at least a little sense would be at stop lights where the coil can be dropped to the pavement and parkings where wireless eliminates the possibility of people forgetting to unplug before driving off.
@David Jameson On the downhill, you can already use the momentum and gravity to recharge using regenerative braking, no need for coils in the road for that either.
There are many ideas/hypothesis which absolutely doesn't work in real world, I think the Chevrolet volt and Toyota Prius are still best of both worlds practical options.
@David Jameson Back in my day, we didn't have downward-sloping hills.
yea, and even the funnier claims of eliminating the need for petrol engines...
Yes exactly
I don't think wireless charging the cars is the solution. It could be less efficient by 30% compared to direct charging, and considering out current electricity in US for example is made over 65% from fossil fuel, less efficient charging the electric cars will mean same amount of pollution anyway!
solution is cars with swap-able battery packs you exchange at stations but there would need to be a universal standard of connections and a selection of sizes that fit certain models of vehicles,instead of owning your own battery you " hire " them
Would it be reasonable to first install "charging" roads in state with high renewable power such as idaho.
@@girlsdrinkfeck I don't think people would want to swap batteries for someone else's used battery. We should build high speed electric rail. Trains can be hundreds of miles an hour, and cut fossil fuel emissions greatly. Electric car ranges are fine for everyday use.
I think we just need exposed 800v lines above the road, and pantograph arms to contact them.
@@sac3528100% yes
It's taking 5 years to re-pave TwO MiLeS of normal pavement here, so GL with that magic smart road stuff
Why is that taking so long? They have been widening and repaving about 50-80 miles if US-2 each summer.
in canada we do that in less then a day ...
Yeah I am from the Czech Republic too
There are a lot of factors that affect construction timelines. Number of lanes balanced against a road that must remain open. The terrain the road passes through, plus any urban congestion issues. Restrictions on time of day to work. Materials and their properties affecting the rate of work. Money/budget available over time to pay for the work.
It would not surprise me if the budgeting is the biggest hurdle on a multiyear project. If they have only so much to spend per-year, then they're going to be stuck with delays each time the money runs out. Corruption also may play a large role, where costs exceed original projections and the contracts allow this.
Where I live they're widening one of the local freeways. They've been at it for a couple of months now, they first ground-off the asphalt layer on top of the concrete layer, then closed a few of the ramps to excavate-out the sloped soil on the side for the new roadbed. They've then proceeded to reinforcing the remaining sloped soil and pouring new retaining walls, followed by installing the crushed aggregate road base and the concrete layer, then reconstructing the ramps. They've done two to three miles of this in a few months, while keeping the eight lanes of freeway open except for a few key days.
But they've budgeted for this and have been planning it for more than a decade.
Why do idiots alternate upper and lower case letters?
Wake me up when we have smart windshields acting as screens displaying all contextually relevant traffic laws and optimal paths to take, gps, threat highlighting, glare deflection, and general smart interface. Throw in gesture controls where you never have to reach to touch the windshield.
Pass.
Who Knows and faint thermal imaging within the windshield to detect animals and humans near road ahead you are a great thinker keep it up on all you enjoy to ponder upon
Would self-driving cars be easier?
Probably sooner have augmented reality to do it for us rather than a "smart windshield".
this is why social democracy is the answer. the countries mentioned are social democracies, which is why the government had the capital to implement these charging roads. imagine never having to buy gas again. and while you pay a little bit more on taxes, it's the ultra wealthy billionaires who pay most of it. they make the elites pay for these infrastructure projects that save you money in the long term. imagine having the road charge your car, for 20,000km. you could drive the whole way for free. and it was the ultra-rich billionaires who paid for it. you probably put like 100$ towards it, but you save 100$ in gas every single month because of it. that leaves you with 1,100$ extra capital each year to do whatever you want with.
i wonder if you guys can see why these people in northern european countries have such better lives than us, because they have social democracies.
"Electric vehicles would put tremendous burden on the power grid. What should we do?"
"Let's make chem charge wirelessly so that their energy intake is tripled due to induction charge inefficiency!"
Mi 28
where did you get this tripple usage?
link please, else it is a rubbish remark
@@BendeVette its called exaggeration for comical effect
@@MalcolmCooks
Comical it is ☺
Mi 28 has a point, but the loss is rather more around 14% in stead of 66%.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne_Charge
@@BendeVette Coils need to pretty much sit flush against each other and in perfect alignment to get good efficiency. Position misalignment vs. coil distance vs. efficiency curve looks like a vertical cliff. It's a well known fact, anyone who ever used wireless charging could tell you this, and so will any electrical engineer since such wireless car charger setup is basically a very badly "assembled" air-core transformer and those are not good at conducting power to begin with. You'd be lucky if you could get 30% efficiency by driving a car with half-decent road clearance over a pavement with coils buried deep within the tarmac.
I don't have to detail the full math (it's far outside of youtube comments realm), a basic explanation should suffice: the coils are like antennas with a very specific radiation/reception patterns inherent to their geometry; the amount of emitted power you can re-capture depends on the distance and on having good antenna alignment. Transformers don't work through RF like antennas but the idea similar. So it's not some "magnet magic" or anything.
Mi 28
97% efficiency with a 6inch gap
insideevs.com/news/340478/120-kw-wireless-charging-proves-97-efficient/
I can't check if it is true, but I think it is.
2:44 Turn on autogenerated captions😅
Would be hard to do where I live...
there is a lot of snow during really big period of time.
The self repairing would be REALLY useful as the freeze/unfreeze break roads like crazy.
frost heaves
@@fios4528 Interesting, but likely cost-prohibitive.
@@fios4528That's insanely inefficient compared to a snow plow and rock salt
So many exciting brilliant developments down the road! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
4:11 this system just seems like a more advanced version of the trolleybuses idea that is around 137 years old.
Yes! Why not improve public transport when we know for 100+ years that those work?
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 because it wouldn't make gm tons of cash. Also America has an unhealthy aversion to anything that isn't a car or truck.
Cant wait for everything plus the friggin road to be tracking me
"But Sir, it's muh environment, and muh safety! It's never going to be used for evil."
@@AndrooUK I was talking with a guy at work today about all the data big companies collect on us and he looked at me all angry and went "what's the big deal, are you planning on doing something illegal!?"
"There's a traffic-jam of ideas..." Punny
That means you have a lot of ideas that aren't going anywhere. Not really an apropos pun. (I mean, it might be accurate, but it's certainly not what you'd want.
Thunderf00t would thank you for not mistakenly bringing up those failed SOLAR FREAKIN ROAD WAYS!
that idea about cars generating electricity when driving is absolutely stupidity. since energy can not be created nor destroyed, the generation of power must come at the cost of more energy needed to move the vehicle in the first place.
@@wli2718 Well, the premise behind that comes form the idea that the car wastes energy in the form of friction with tires contacting the road, and we can "collect" that waste energy. It's like... an afterburner. But the thing is, due to the very minor amount it could funnel back, and the increased cost from the roads and vehicle modifications would likely outweigh the benefit. It's at least physically possible, and not totally redundant! Since Solar Roadways is very more expensive, less efficient, and less durable than solar awnings over crosswalks... a technology pretty widely used already, I even see it all the time here in Seattle - Tacoma - Olympia general metropolitan area
I am the proud owner of a smart ass.
This guy.
lol. XD
Probably the most underrated comment I’ve ever seen.
There is one very good reason for keeping the roads stupid: the sheer amount of surface area. Unless you can upgrade roads thru some self multiplying grey goo kind of deal, the amount of work and money required is astronomical.
Oh no! Jobs and economic stimulus! However can we cope!
Havent watched the video yet but dear God if you guys talk about SOLOR FREAKIN ROADWAYS in a positive manner, my sides will experience escape velocity
Check the source links... it's solar roadways... even if they really try not to mention them in the video, the link to them.
@@MrTheWaterbear
Which link? I've opened the first 3, but its clunky for me atm as I'm currently on my cell.
Here you go. Haven't followed SciShow much exactly because it's pop science but this, after all the debunking of solar roadways, really puts them in a very bad position. Not to mention that most ideas presented are stupid anyway. They imagine is so easy to redo infrastructures and embed elements which weakens the structure, as well as significantly increase costs? Aaarghhhh
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@@alexandragroza2611
Thank you for pointing out which one it was. While I'm glad that they didnt explicitly talk about solar roadways the fact that it was still present in the "source links" makes me wonder what their actual definition of "source" is. I was of the frame of mind that it meant citations to back up your claims.
@@killtyrant It doesn't matter that much, since the whole subject is only possible in a civilization where energy is not a concern. Most people totally ignore energy transportation. That grid cost a ton of money, no it is not replaceable and building a parallel one on such large scale to be embedded in roads would not only technical very challenging to maintain the structure of the road, but very expensive.
And for what? To know where is an accident? Make the cars use the GPS system and phone one to announce it. What kind of crazy mind would move all the wireless system in hte road just to know where an accident happens!
Induction charging for EVs, in other words how to reduce the efficiency of charging by 90% :D
The magnetic feilds generated by AC current sloshing back n forth around a separate coil is, your right, not very efficient. But the entire mass of the vehicle moving through a magnetic field is certainly a considerable amount of "work" being done against this field. Perhaps you could crank up the lines of flux just around each vehicle. Like electronically with sensors allow the road to track each car, and generate a higher powered field that moves along with each vehicle if it needs charging. Then use V2X to sync w/ brakes. Done.
What are you guys waiting for...
@@jppatterson7142 If you use roadways to charge EVs, that will inevitably cause increased friction between the car and the road. Bad idea. It could work on cars going downhill, but otherwise, nah.
@@craigcorson3036 Hey yeah! That's a good point. The components in the road will be pulled/pushed torsionally in one direcrion very strongly as the car tries to push against the field.
Also,
Wait. Are you saying that as the car pushes through the field (in this set up) that there is a downward force vector gained in the process?
Sooo, high speed conering while charging??? [ : D
@@jppatterson7142 Correct. Have you ever operated a hand-cranked generator? If it's not under load, i.e. not connected to anything, the crank turns easily, with almost no resistance. The moment you put a load on it, though, there is very strong resistance to being turned. A car-charging roadway is essentially the same thing, except the car's motion is the "crank". The moment you try to charge the car's battery, that car is going to slow WAY down.
And no, I'm not saying that there is a downward vector. I'm saying that, while the car is going downhill, it has an assist from the Earth's gravity, which helps "turn the crank", while at the same time keeping the car from speeding up on the slope. It would act like a brake.
@@craigcorson3036 Got it. Freeway off ramps, and down hill stretches for inductive charging that is built into road ways would be the best bets.
Getting a hand crank gen asap and hooking it up to various things...
Thanks!
Very cool stuff! I can hardly wait to use some of this.
Well that was cool and well worth watching and sharing, thank you
What if someone were to hack into and tamper with this hypothetical "smart road" system, which would essentially amount to a vast surveillance network?
Perfect video lots of information within a short video and to a point at which we can ponder and prosper from for the future generations to come
I have a sneaking suspicion that not much research was done by Scishow on any of these claims. Only that the claims have been made.
I have a sneaking suspicion that not much research was done by Scishow on any of their videos. Only that the videos have been made.
ftfy
@@thewingedpotato6463 hey, it will likely get alot of uninformed investor dollars.
The whoke point of the video is them informing that "Hey! This is a thing!" The video wasn't intended as a deep dive investigation as to how it'd work.
I work for Arapahoe county in Colorado (ironically right off 285) and we talked about this two weeks ago. Crazy.
That sounds like a very positive plan! I hope it works!
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just reduce the need for cars. Would cut down on road accidents, maintenance and you charging stations.
ever one wants to be free and go and do as they like. The Car/vehicles are so wide Spread because of this.
No, because then less money would be flowing in the economy, and the economy is more important to them than the environment. They use the environment as a guise to raise taxes and create more academic related jobs for themselves.
3:16 nice flow
Love them all
It would be helpful to list the extensive list of failures and problems that come with most of these ideas. Highlighting the shortfalls could work towards inspiring others to drive toward solutions.
In Australia they drive on the left side of the road. In South Africa we drive on what is left of the roads
_Solar_
*_Freaking_*
_Roadways_
Before anyone spergs out at me, yes I am aware that it was stupid
its ok i was about to ask where the hell my solar freaking roadways are?
ThunderFoot came a-walking, The Solar Roadways they did fail. The stupid State Governments kept a fundin-! The taxpayers aught to bloody well sue~
Gaaah, you beat me to it!
@@MrTheWaterbear To be honest Thunderf00t could have done nothing and the idea would have still failed
At first, the solar roads seemed like a good idea on the surface (pun intended).
Glad to know y'all aren't dead from the snow dump!! Please stay bundled up! 💙💜
V2X and Smart Roads' functionality has in part already been working as Waze app. Google Maps integrated it some time ago. The V2X tech would help a lot helping cars communicating with each other, allowing Stage 4 and 5 self-driving cars to navigate better and reduce collisions. The other tech showed here is truly awesome, no comments added. Hopefully something will get widespread in the next 10 years.
I've previously seen articles about steel threads in asphalt with the intent of melting snow by giving it just enough energy to keep the road slightly above zero when it snows. I can't recall if it was the motion of the cars that generated the current, or if it was applied directly somehow.
Car charging roads sounds like an idea best reserved for parking lots and sections of road that have near constant stand still traffic (which, that money would be better spent fixing the stand still traffic)
I’ve heard of an idea of making roads out of solar panel tiles. Easy repairs because you can just replace a tile instead of tearing up asphalt. It can power cities or be combined with one of the ideas you mentioned to charge electric cars while on the go
Can't wait for smart people.
Can't wait for thunderf00t to most likely debunk this.
Smart roadways. Now you can be watched from the second you leav your house until you get back to it! Amazing! Who's ever wanted a little privacy, not me :p
As a Coloradan, I love that we have so many pilot projects to move forward toward the future
A fool and their money will soon be parted.
Get well soon.
Keep taking credit for something you have nothing to do with besides living in the same state as it
@@LucidFL All these statists have is things done by others that they passively give approval of.
Whatever meager means to justify their all but virtually non-existent existence.
Perhaps installing induction charging locations in parking lots? I realize that there are typically charging ports at some, but this would enable an area to be used for EV charging while not putting much more above ground. Possibly allowing for better snow removal in the colder climate areas. As for the pervious asphalt used in the Netherlands, why in the ever living hell don't we use that here in the US Midwest and East where we get the cold as hell winters?
Could you do a video on how hydroflasks / vacuum flasks work?
It's like the recharge sections in Fzero!
That steel-wool asphalt sounds brilliant. I can easily see this reducing construction sites and especially costs a lot. I hope this turns out as good as it sounds!
I'm skeptical about wireless recharging though. These kinds of systems usually lose quite a bit of energy in the process and the further apart both ends are, the worse it gets. Cars have to have ground clearance of course and that's a problem. I wouldn't be surprised if the losses exceed 10%. Reloading car batteries like that in vast numbers sounds like a huge waste of energy.
I think the end goal here will eventually be smart roads in sync with self driving cars... where our time to get to places could probably take 1/4th of what it is now.
Smart pavement will never be a solution. It's waaaaaay to expensive when a small chip in every car can do the same - and truly is only a software issue (+ a sim card) for any car of the last decade or more.
It's not that I think these kinds of roads would be unnecessary at all, I just assume they'd be pretty damn expensive.
These are all great ideas for the "publicly rich" areas of the world; here in the US where our infrastructure is so garbage that we're having trouble keeping the power grid up and the roads in even passable condition in many places, it's gonna be a while (if ever) before expensive techs get rolled out in public works.
That last one sounds kinda iffy, wouldn't something like that be insanely inefficient?
Wow! Building a better future with smart materials and wise investments! Exciting times!
This possibility raises all kinds questions for me that need exploration. If i own an EV and charge at home, my cost is the cost of electricity.
If I drive on a road that charges my vehicle, whats the cost?
Is it the price of electricity? do i pay it through taxes to roadways? Will these become toll roads contracted to private companies and will those companies raise the price of the electricity as a delivery fee?
these are just thoughts beyond the possibility of the roads working as designed.
Came here to not hear about solar/plastic roadways. I was not disappointed. Still skeptical about some of the projects but you gotta think outside of the box sometimes.
so you're going to tell me I35 aint even close to done and they already need to change it again?!
What about the impact on the environment and the amount of money it actually costs to make these roads
Honestly you could just pull cars with something like a ski lift on the highway and use regenerative breaking from the car to charge the battery. Way more efficient than other solutions
I live in Colorado, had absolutely no clue these roads are a thing.
Smart roads and cars are fine but what we need the most is smart people, that would resolve so many problems.
3:00 steel wool and a steel scrubbing sponge are not actually the same thing. It's a matter of scale, but I bet scale is important to this tech. Steel wool is very, very fine -- it probably blends into the asphalt and seals small cracks much better than the product in the photo.
Can you please do a video explaining the effects of all cars being electric, without changing where the electricity is coming from?
I like getting cobblestoned in my smart streets 😎🛣️
If you combine smart roads with autonomous cars then they can talk to each other and notify each system of different road conditions. Let's say a car crashes and tells the road system. It can confirm that it crashed and the road system can notify emergency services and other vehicles where to avoid the area. It can also inform other autonomous cars to take other routes or how to go around it. The smart roads can also notify cars when an emergency vehicle is coming and if hooked up to autonomous cars can have them automatically pull over when the emergency vehicle is close. No more this BS of not pulling over for emergency vehicles. Autonomous cars may seem scary at first but when they are more reliable they will be a big improvement to safety for these reasons. You wont have speeding or road rage anymore. If the governments order the dealerships of autonomous cars to keep the speed to maximum limit then the road should become quite a bit safer.
"85,000 fewer car accidents and 300 fewer deaths over 20 years" For reference, there are ~27,000 accidents in Colorado per year.
You can gradually convert gas stations to charging stations. If you're gonna run energy through the road, I think a better use than charging cars would be melting ice without salt.
This is all going to be so nice for the rich people who can afford the new cars and to travel abroad where the road tech will implemented
that pun was more like a car accident than a traffic jam lol
I like the idea of what is effectively a Chi charger for your car. I wonder if the magnetic field will be strong enough to get your phone inside the car. That would make a lot of people drive in the left hand lane instead of cruising in the passing lane because it charges there car and phone.
V2X sounds like the obvious next step in self driving cars.
The oil industry will want to try and slow this down no doubt
this whole video broke my mind
Thunderfoot gonna expose this.
I want my roads smart enough to dance while I shower
woah, I live in Colorado right next to 285 and I didn't know that, granted it is a completely different part of 285 than the part I live ner but still...
Well, these ideas are a lot better than "SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS!"
Great video
Induction while handy, is very efficient way to charge batteries. Gap of even few centimeters reduces the efficiency to almost half.
So these charging road desings, excluding the first swedish idea of physical rail, would all have to handle ridiculous loads if all cars utilised them.
While wireless charging sounds cool and is making enterance to phones, I think we face the same restriction why we don't have flying cars: it is ridiculously inefficient system, that while sounds cool doesn't perform well enough to warrant the cost. And that's not because the tech isn't ready yet, but because it actively has to fight against the laws of physic.
"Laughs" like that will ever happen "years later instant regret for doughting humanity"
The "smart pavement" would be most useful where it'd be far to expensive; mainly secondary and tertiary roads in rural and remote areas.
I hope these are more of the lets test this and see if any useful info is found while testing. Remember the wright brothers plane was among the worst planes ever invented, you have to start somewhere.
You should do more videos with Charlie 😄
Roadways are the most expensive maintenance option you can spend tax dollars on. If instead more funds were spent on rail -- the most cost efficient transport method -- then we can reduce the need of supporting an energy efficient method: cars.
Rail will not replace cars but doing more to bring more balance to public transport instead of seeing cars as the only method.
Smart cars, smart watches, smart refrigerators, smart roads, smart trees, smart AI's. Everything on this planet is smart except majority of the people.
Now we wait for +thunderf00t to see this
Is it just me, or am I sensing that the watchdogs universe is getting closer and closer everyday?
How quickly will I be able to go back to West Virginia on these?
There is very little point in charging your car while driving. My car has a battery that has 500km range. Far more than I will ever need. Since a DC charger will fill up my car in at most an hour and a half I have no worries. I can drive 8 hours if I stop at a restaurant for lunch at a with a DC charger. I can go multiple days if I stay at a hotel with a slow charger. All that needs to happen is restaurants on major highways need multiple DC charges and hotels need slow chargers. The surprising thing that is happening is the ones that put in some to get those few with electric cars need to put in more.
"or just pulled over to take a picture of the land scape" wow... Those roads really are smart
I mean, there are certain points that people tend to do that at more than others. There is also little else to do there.
I just stopped by to make sure you guys weren't touting solar freakin' roadways.
I can't believe there was no mention of self driving cars. If they could communicate with other cars and with the road itself, seems like that could drastically improve the reliability of the autopilot since it wouldn't have to rely solely on visual and radar data.
Are the lane lines faded and difficult to see? No problem, the car can follow the track that's installed inside the road. Your car can't see the deer carcass on the road around the next bend? No problem, the road has already alerted your autopilot of the upcoming threat. Etc.
If you want to know what it will be like walking around streets in the future, where roads will charge the cars just strap a pair of 100 watt incandescent lightbulbs to your feet and turn them on.
BUT WHAT ABOUT SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS?!?!?!
We got a get Thunderfoot up in here.
Side Note: I think it is interesting how the The States is RARELY mentioned in moving forward with companies and projects in this way. :thinkingface:
sigh
They're more focused on military power, which isn't bad because no matter how fancy another countries' might be, a more powerful military force will still triumph in the end
@@jamikzvonbalatch9114 Afghanistan would like a word with you
It's easier for a little country like Sweden to implement the horrible sounding charging roads, but for a behemoth like the USA it is basically impossible.
That V2X needs to be installed in emergency vehicles, and in trains, to alert other drivers to their presence. And such alerts need to override the car's sound system, until they are acknowledged by the driver.
I have an idea:
How about we link cars together from the front or bumper with a hitching device to reduce traffic, accidents and drunk drivers
Great idea! It would probably also help to confine this train of cars to a separate track with a rail or something to keep them in a nice orderly line. And since they're all hitched together they don't all need their own engine anymore. Just one or two huge engines at the front and/or back should do the trick.
@@HermanVonPetri Exactly
@@HermanVonPetri That's a stupid idea, it would never work. And I should know because I am very smart, the smartest they say! Ask anyone! They'll say that I'm very rich and smart.
And now my questions:
1. Why would any town spend millions of dollars on this tech when an asphalt road is ridiculously cheap in comparison.
2. How will these systems hold up to weather? Roads have to withstand blizzards, hurricanes, tornados, ect. I can just see this smart road system being destroyed by hurricanes like Rita, Katrina, Irma, and Dorian. I can also see them struggling in the NE, our Winters are harsh and I can see these systems being ripped apart by cracks in the road caused by ice.
3. The government can barely maintain roads now, how the hell do you expect it to maintain this complex system?
Germany has had a very basic smart road system for years, where weight strips in the pavement would detect if a car was waiting at a stop light.
Turns out people are too stupid to drive right up to the line and it sometimes leads to hilarious waiting periods.
There are even signs posted to inform people of this.
Nope.
They just wait. and wait. and wait....
Most places will use metal sensing wires in the roads to do that... a weight sensing system sounds messy, and obviously doesn't work for real life applications.
@@AndrooUK okay maybe it's metal-sensing, I don't know. Either way it works very well, for instance it's used to trigger traffic cameras and I can assure you those work perfectly.
EDIT: Actually yeah I just looked it up and they do use induktion so you're right.
V2X is the first step to a world like “romantically apocalyptic“
Hmm... well, the issue of altered roadways is, that it inherently creates weak points in the road, where not all of the road is equally layered with the same texture concrete. Just look at Solar Roadways. Humongous failure.
So electronically smart roads... nah. Probably not going to work well on highways or when heavy vehicles abuse it frequently.
And the issue with charging cars remotely by driving over an electrically active bed of metal is, ahem, THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.
If the car experiences an induced current, it will also experience a pull from that electromagnetic force. Which could increase the drag load on the car, and make it cost more energy to travel the same distance without induction. So the induction has to somehow be greater than the drag, or cause the drag force to be applied in a different direction. Which would be pretty challenging and definitely not efficient.
Where is the published research on the mechanics? I'm SURE some engineers or physicists have done small-scale assessments. You cannot trust innovators or State-funded projects! Look at Solar Roadways, a hugely over-funded project that got an insane amount of funding to test a premise that was inherently flawed and could be demonstrated on a small scale to be completely trash.
If I'm the idiot here, I'm sorry. I'm currently going through the sources SciShow has linked.
Okay, so the V2X seems legit! It doesn't in fact seek to integrate elements INTO the roads, but instead channel info from cameras/sensors through an AI into your car to help with navigation warnings. Fair enough.
CDOT Smart Roadways falls into the same pit of garbage of Solar Roadways. They use a MODULAR ROAD DESIGN, which, if anyone has ever walked down a street with concrete slab pavement, CRACK over time, because each end will flex into the substrate little by little with each impact. So this is a foregone failure. Should not be funded, should not be featured on SciShow.
The Smart-Road Technologies pamphlet has really good ideas and really bad ones. Like Solar Roadways. CAN'T WE ADMIT THIS ONE HAS BEEN DEBUNKED ALREADY?! Some highlights are part of the Ray program that seeks to make rest stops self-sufficient with water collection and solar power (NOT in the road!). Seems legitimately sustainable if it is robust enough not to require high maintenance. Other parts (roughly HALF of all ideas connected to the Ray) are just... I mean... they are literally solar roadways. The morons.
Wattway, Temperature Sensitive Road Paint, SmartPavement are all just insane. Watch some ThunderFoot, hire some actual engineers from a third party who can drive extremely heavy loads across these modular pavements at high speeds. STOP FUNDING THE SELF-DESTRUCTIVE, SELF-DAMAGING SOLAR MODULAR ROADWAYS!
Summary: charging roadways... have potential. In the same manner that trains currently stay charged by direct contact with overhanging cables, this has potential. Potentially dangerous and hard-to-maintain potential (because they are IN THE GROUND).
All the Smart Roadways ideas that have merit and have undergone long-duration testing never touch the road. They use posts with cameras and sensors that can send signals through AI into your vehicle or to emergency response centers. Good ideas!
So. Many. Modular. Roadways. Modular roadways are inherently flawed, funny enough no one decides to test them by having a super heavy truck brake at high speed whilst driving over them. Because they would fail. In fact, they don't even need that much stress to fail at all.
And solar roadways... we all know that roads get dirty. And that roads get damaged. So let's take a transparent material which will get scratched up, dirty, and damaged, and try to use that to harvest light. HOW IS THIS EVEN LINKED AS A SOURCE BY A SCIENCE CHANNEL?! SHAME ON YOU!!
Solar roadways were especially stupidly designed. 1) it used LEDs, 2) it used GLASS for tiling, 3) had nothing for heat and thus easily caught on fire 4) were poorly made in other aspects in general. There was so much wrong with it I'm not going through the whole list.
Still you got a point. You can't just trust inventors' words. You have to have testing done by other scientists/mechanics to see what works and how- if at all.
But with the first one, it is being tested currently.
@@cameoshadowness7757 Thanks for the response. I went through all the sources, skipping the duplicate ones. Commented on all the individual ones. You might wanna have a look for yourself, or read my summary in my updated comment :)
You seem to be interested, as well. Cheers!
@@MrTheWaterbear I will! :) Thanks for letting me know about the update too.
@@MrTheWaterbear 100% agree. Modding the physically roads themselves are beyond dangerous and leads to hazardous results. You cover it really well.
Even wihtout heavy duty testing, many fail as a defult. It seems as if many simple things get easily ignored when modding roads and even the more important complex things get over looked.
Also for the charging roads, I feel like it is possible to use IF cars had two engines to be used or if it was a parking station. This way, the lowest one is being charged while the other is being used so the person can keep going. Of corse this runs into the slowing issue but (to be hummorous) let those things be on down facing hills and it won't be too bad! Gravity will help out!
This is probably not relavent here but I think the best option for cars that gives us range and sustainability is to still have gas cars BUT recollect the pollution back into gas with renewables. It would require large scale Carbon Recapture technology though.
All of these initiatives sound very material and energy intensive. Even ignoring the costs, they sound like they may seriously harm the environment and contribute significantly to global warming.