h a l f b a k e r yStrap *this* to the back of your cat.
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What happens if the car is travelling fast enough for the electromagnet only to pull it, say three quarters of the way up before the car's momentum carries it through its influence? Would you not end up with a lot of cars now not only rushing through red lights, but doing so twenty feet above the ground? |
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Could be adapted to avoid the need for bridges where roads cross, half of cross-flowing traffic would simply be slung into the air by an electromagnet embedded in the road. A mechanism to calculate the force required to ensure a correct trajectory would need to be devised (and a feedback system to ensure the correct force is applied). |
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That would be a headache. |
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[+] For its halfbakededness. Since when does something
like this need all the bugs worked out for the HB? |
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drainfood's idea is even better--get rid of stoplight
entirely, everybody drives all out all the time, and
wheeeee, some of us go flying over the traffic. |
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The magnet should be in the road, just past the intersection. The car would zoom thru, only to come to a bone-jarring halt just on the far side of the intersection. Traffic would not be obstructed since the light is now red and traffic is going by on the cross street. |
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Fasten your seatbelts, folks. |
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What about emergency vehicles? |
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what about cars going the other way ??, or stoped cars ? would they get pulled into the intersection ? |
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Bury the magnet in the road. This would stop the car VERY suddenly! Then you'd need some kind of crane to remove the knackered car from the road, but it serves people right if they run red lights. |
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It does not serve anyone right to destroy them or their vehicle for running a red light. |
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