The post about drafting a semi-trailer rig to make range hit home for me.
When I was a young foolish motorcyclist in New England, during the winter,
doing just that made temperatures more tolerable. Later years, pedaling a
velomobile behind a construction crane at 35 mph was a real blast. What better
draft could a human powered vehicle ask for than an eight foot wide, ten foot
tall rolling air dam?
For the EV world, I'm surprised Mr. Musk hasn't come up with EV programmed
platooning. Put a Tesla semi on the road to make money, then link a convoy of
other Tesla vehicles with V2V networking and let the lead monster triple the
range of the conga line.
I'd thought about this in years long past that manufacturers should have put
railway type couplings at a uniform height, with data communications. Get on
the highway, ease up behind a train of ICEs (back then) and clunk into the
coupling. Additional dashboard devices would warn the next in line if a middle
car wanted to pull off on a siding, waking up the driver in time to rejoin to
the lead rigs.
Elon, are you listening?
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