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I love it when I get driven to work, but I can't leave when I want to, I depend on someone else.
So, like trailers behind a semi, why not connect several cars to a powerful drive vehicle that can tow several cars behind it. Like a 'road train'.
No flatbed or lifting of the cars. When you get
to your destination, disconnect from the connecting vehicle and drive away.
You could have a connector that is universal and mounted to partipating cars. Drive up to the train, connect and relax.
Cars would need a connector in the back and the front.
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So if I am third in a train of six cars and I detach at my destination, what happens the the three cars behind me? |
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How many times have we done this idea now? |
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[+] just for the Dr.'s fuddy-duddiness |
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So if I'm the first in a train of six cars and we accelerate or travel up hill my car gets stretched? Similarly upon deceleration or down hill my car gets squashed? |
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This would be for long trips, commutes to work where everybody is going the same place. |
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Or instead of buses in city traffic. Take a bunch of kia's and link them together permanently. I really buses. |
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Going up and down hills, yes you would be squashed and stretched. |
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I never even bothered to offer this idea, even though it's on my list of personal WIBNIs. |
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Heck, it has been proposed in PopSci since at least the 1950s |
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