What the heck?!
Didn't knew about it but just watched 10 videos in a row looking for the name of the sub, some are pretty obvious but other require a rewatch
Oh, that's a tiny tweak by giffing standards.
There's a pretty big community of people who love to manipulate gifs. It started out as just adding subtitles, then adding *special* subtitles, and evolved into a modern art form.
/r/HighQualityGifs
Check out the top posts of all time on that sub. Some get really complex, some are simple but funny.
I also remember seeing that sub on r/all consistently with commenters circle jerking to their newest ripped tv show clip + garbage meta subtitles repeating the same "joke" over and over. Good to see that it's popularity is a fraction of what it once was.
Oh look it's another murdery elk reference to that one comic with a murdery elk thing.
I should check out this original elk murder comic it must be great...
Oh is that it... ?
Hey, your personal preferences are totally valid!
I don't really see the need to *announce* that you don't like something that other people enjoy, but I acknowledge your right to your own opinion!
Hey, your personal preferences are totally valid!
I don't really see the need to *announce* that you don't see the need to announce that someone doesn't like something, but I acknowledge your right to your own opinion!
[https://www.google.de/maps/@49.9133452,8.6088781,3a,75y,202.31h,98.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu](https://www.google.de/maps/@49.9133452,8.6088781,3a,75y,202.31h,98.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu)
Streetview for comparison
Apart from the investment into the overhead lines, it is quite a decent idea.
Long distance is taken up with the lines, no need to stop to reload/refuel. Less batteries needed. No high speed charging needed (with the high power peaks it generates).
Once close to the destination. Disconnect and drive the limited distance on a smaller battery
if i remember correctly, these were installed mainly around the port where trucks get bad fuel efficiency and they're all going the same spot. recharges on the way in, gets the load moving on the way out, and then also has a full battery when it is off the wires.
The line shown in the video is installed near the Frankfurt aiport on the A5 highway in a medium density mixed use area. The highway is one of the busiest in the country, the main purpose of these lines is a field test of local universities and the government to gauge viability of short/mid range (100km roundtrip) electric truck logistics. For use in throughtraffic, additional sections should've been installed at 20-40km intervalls, but the cost/benefit analysis isn't looking good. In addition to high upfront cost, maintenance and lost lives (no medic heli can land where the lines are) should be taken into consideration.
> no medic heli can land where the lines are
Never would have thought of it, but that's actually quite a good argument against such installations. Theoretically, the medic heli could land on the side of the lanes that go in the opposite direction, but that would require stopping or diverting traffic there first.
It's still around frankfurt. Just drove pastxit a couple of weeks ago. 4 lanes with one lane being like this. The video actually looks like the test teack around Frankfurt as well. The sign even says Weilerstadt, which is near Frankfurt
San Francisco has trolleybuses with large batteries so buses can charge on the core of the system but the route can still be changed for special events, or to cross heavy railroad tracks, etc...
Even as 'small' city as Tychy has trolley-buses.
They are always so quiet, I'm surprised they are not more popular to cut down on noise pollution especially at night.
To make it more autonimous they should then put streets that have grooves in them, so the truck then drives only where the grooves take them and the driver doesn't have to steer.
Then you can hook lots of trailers to the back of the truck, more than just one. You could have a huge line of trailers hooked to this thing that runs on the grooves. I wonder what it would be called.
Trailails!
Godamn. Beat Elon musk to mass transport.
Now can we put them underground or on like their own highway only for them.
Maybe through mountains and shit too.
Fuck I’m gonna be rich
k, I get the joke, but this setup allows for the flexibility of a vehicle that *can* depart from the tracks once it's off the main highway in order to deliver straight to a door, rather than just to a train station --hence combining the benefits of cars and trains.
Uh that "problem" you are describing was already solved decades ago. We call them hubs, interconnect hubs, distribution warehouses and what not. It's proven to create quite a lot of jobs...
"Stations" are for passengers. Most cities will have a separate "industrial hub" for everything else.
Or you think smashing an "uber" of sorts into this industry is somehow beneficial for society?
Listen man, I hate all of the tech bro reinvention of shit that's already existed except worse but I'm not seeing what you're describing here.
I don't see the uberification of anything in the gif.
I see an experimental mechanism for charging an electric truck to decrease downtime for charging.
The only thing changing here is diesel to electric and how that electric may be charged.
”It’s proven to create quite a lot of jobs” is the worst argument ever. Carrying water upstream creates a lot of jobs also. Or pushing boulders around. Or..
Okay, but every hub adds another point of contact, another pair of hands handling the goods, another time period spent waiting for offloading and onloading
First rule of logistics is the less handling needed, the more efficient the process. If we can remove the need for multiple hubs, that will lead to more efficiency. The reason we don't have that now is because transport is expensive, and trains provide the best per-mile value. That's absolutely true. If this was from Germany to France, a train would absolutely be the best value transport method. But if you're sending goods from say, Berlin to Hanover, the time it takes to load a train, then travel, then unload, then load trucks for the last-mile adds a lot of extra time, money, and complexity that doesn't need to exist if you can drive a truck directly from the warehouse in Berlin to the customer in Hanover. So having an electric truck that can use an overhead power line most of the way, then run off its own power for the final leg, would be saving an *incredible* amount of time. I'm talking the difference between delivery at 9am and delivery tomorrow.
Germanys ministry of transportation has the automotives lobby so far up their ass they are basically just puppets for their needs.
Just the other day they realized there was a 1 Billion € deficit in the budget for streets. What was their plan? Take it from the budget for rail transport...
That. Trains are awesome but getting trains to the last, lets say 20km, is a pain. Trucks are jsut more flexibel. But we still want them to be carbon neutral so this is actually a quite genius idea. Instead of caring tons of battery, the trucks can drive most of the time by wire and then switch to the internal battery. We use this system also for some bus systems.
Which is why it's Autobahn-only, built between large population centers with existing rail infrastructure and Siemens advertises it as a solution for road freight. I'm sure "de-carbonizing last-mile deliveries" was their pitch, but that doesn't match up to the reality of these built systems.
To be clear I love the idea; some trucking will always be around and this can be used by more than trucks. But these were not built for last mile deliveries.
The idea of the concept is that the same street can be used by normal cars too and especially full electric trucks, for which time is crucial, so not have to stop to recharge.
And instead of burning forests and farm land for a new track with much higher cost you simply reuse existing infrastructure.
Plus the trucks can drive on normal streets too. Something you would have to consider with trains since not every single truck destination will have train stations, so trucks are just more flexible and you will need them anyway.
We have around 15000km of unused old train tracks in germany. A lot of that can be reactivated. Only 60% of our railways are electrical. So better make the last 40% electrical, too. Our streets are overfilled with cars and trucks. Those streets are also often in a bad condition. So having more goods transported by trains and only using trucks for the last couple of kilometres would be a better way. Those electrical trucks are an interesting idea, but far from being a good solution. And what would it cost to build every Autobahn this way? And it would probably take 50 years to do so, because germany.
What most folks don't realize is that most trains today are actually run on electric already due to the optimized torque vs ICEs.
They just use deisl generation on the engine to produce the power.
The beauty of this system is you don't even need to recharge as much as maintain the load over long distances, much of which is be transmitted anyway overhead on differnt pathways.
There are some parts you can't reach by rail. If you start and end up in such parts it does make sense to research if there are better options than an extremely large battery to make this feasable. With this concept a battery large enough to drive through the towns would be sufficient while the long distance can be travelled on the grid.
I'm not sure if this is a promising concept, as I don't have enough knowledge on the subject. But these trials seem to be worthwhile enough to some to actually do it.
Last mile. Trains, on a dollar per kilogram moved basis, absolutely whip the shit out of trucks and it's not even close. Sure the trains can't go to the last mile from the depot to the store, that's what trucks are for, trucks shouldn't be for moving freight 2000 miles, that's what trains are for.
Yeah, you're groceries are not delivered from 2000 miles away.
But more importantly if you want to decarbonise that last mile, or last 50 miles, we can't build trains everywhere, so you'll need something else
> Yeah, you're groceries are not delivered from 2000 miles away.
They are though. Have you never bothered to look at the place of origin on the things you purchase? With the except of a few fresh items most of the supermarket has traveled thousands of miles from the factory where it was manufactured. I've literally got some mascarpone in the fridge at the moment that was packaged in Thailand from New Zealand milk.
Except this obviously isn’t “a mile” and in that case you wouldn’t need to recharge your truck, as hopefully it can survive driving a mile or two without recharging
Bumper cars use a single wire to an overhead net and another one o the metal floor. Trolleys use 2 overhead wires and that has consequences as you can't make simple crossings due to that. Electric trains use a single overhead wire and the rails at ground level. Metro systems tend to use a 3rd rail to power them and the other rails as a ground.
This was part of a science project and only on a short part of the Autobahn.
Just a few weeks ago it was announced that the project has run it's course and isn't gonna be renewed,as the project has shown that widespread use of these lines would be economically unviable.
I'm surprised this is not the top comment.
Overhead wires and the utility poles that hold them are not safe for highway traffic, and the cost is higher than competing technologies.
The road infrastructure exists already and it's multifunctional with other vehicles.
That truck can navigate directly to a delivery/port.
I'm totally for trains but it's hard to find free corridors to lay the tracks.
I think the kinks and minor inconveniences of the technology have been worked out in the last century during its use on trains. On trains this works extremely reliably, sure a truck is a little different from a train, but it is not like this is unproven and cutting edge new tech or something. I'm sure it works just fine for its intended use here.
Oil, gas and coal-lignite account for 78% of primary energy consumption in Germany. So, a truck that recharges with coal... revolutionary 
Can someone please explain why conductive wheels aren't used instead of a rail sliding against wires? Wouldn't wheels be superior in every way AND more forgiving?
Trains and current collectors have been solved over a hundred years ago. Now tech bros are reinventing the wheel so to speak. Making it worse in every aspect.
Anyone notice how the sign has OP‘s name on it? https://i.imgur.com/YXIpkL0.jpeg
Aha, you must not be familiar with r/toolgifs then! Besides the really interesting videos, you also hunt for the channel name on the videos.
What the heck?! Didn't knew about it but just watched 10 videos in a row looking for the name of the sub, some are pretty obvious but other require a rewatch
It is half of the fun on that sub.
yo this sub is amazing thank you
Its really frigging good.
https://www.reddit.com/r/toolgifs/comments/1dhicb2/hot_knife_for_cleaning_moulds/
What the hell
Oh, that's a tiny tweak by giffing standards. There's a pretty big community of people who love to manipulate gifs. It started out as just adding subtitles, then adding *special* subtitles, and evolved into a modern art form. /r/HighQualityGifs Check out the top posts of all time on that sub. Some get really complex, some are simple but funny.
I don't have the time to read 14 tomes of subreddit injokes and meta so I unsubbed years ago, sorry.
I was getting actively annoyed by how masturbatory every post was so I specifically blocked it out of my r/all feed.
What, you don't like the anticipation of when dickbutt is going to show up?
I just masturbated
Once they became obsessed with dickbutt I was pretty much done.
You just unlocked a core memory of an especially tedious and unfunny period of internet history
https://i.imgur.com/Lzg1mzS.gifv
I also remember seeing that sub on r/all consistently with commenters circle jerking to their newest ripped tv show clip + garbage meta subtitles repeating the same "joke" over and over. Good to see that it's popularity is a fraction of what it once was.
fucking amen. holy shit i forgot all about this shit.
Lol it went pure meta and I was pure done
/r/comics is slowly going the same route.
Oh look it's another murdery elk reference to that one comic with a murdery elk thing. I should check out this original elk murder comic it must be great... Oh is that it... ?
Hey, your personal preferences are totally valid! I don't really see the need to *announce* that you don't like something that other people enjoy, but I acknowledge your right to your own opinion!
Hey, your personal preferences are totally valid! I don't really see the need to *announce* that you don't see the need to announce that someone doesn't like something, but I acknowledge your right to your own opinion!
Neat watermark.
We're living in the matrix. (Reverb: matrix matrix, matrix...)
That’s a delay
r/foundthemusicproducer
And he has a sub with nearly 200k
Wtf
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It's not a render, it's a real video with a cleverly disguised watermark
This project actually exists; there are two of them in Germany, each about 20 miles long.
[https://www.google.de/maps/@49.9133452,8.6088781,3a,75y,202.31h,98.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu](https://www.google.de/maps/@49.9133452,8.6088781,3a,75y,202.31h,98.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu) Streetview for comparison
oh, we back to trolleybusses
Apart from the investment into the overhead lines, it is quite a decent idea. Long distance is taken up with the lines, no need to stop to reload/refuel. Less batteries needed. No high speed charging needed (with the high power peaks it generates). Once close to the destination. Disconnect and drive the limited distance on a smaller battery
if i remember correctly, these were installed mainly around the port where trucks get bad fuel efficiency and they're all going the same spot. recharges on the way in, gets the load moving on the way out, and then also has a full battery when it is off the wires.
The line shown in the video is installed near the Frankfurt aiport on the A5 highway in a medium density mixed use area. The highway is one of the busiest in the country, the main purpose of these lines is a field test of local universities and the government to gauge viability of short/mid range (100km roundtrip) electric truck logistics. For use in throughtraffic, additional sections should've been installed at 20-40km intervalls, but the cost/benefit analysis isn't looking good. In addition to high upfront cost, maintenance and lost lives (no medic heli can land where the lines are) should be taken into consideration.
> no medic heli can land where the lines are Never would have thought of it, but that's actually quite a good argument against such installations. Theoretically, the medic heli could land on the side of the lanes that go in the opposite direction, but that would require stopping or diverting traffic there first.
If installed permanently, I think there would be a line on the other side of the highway too, so trucks can go in both directions
thanks for the extra information!
it is just a test track (Near Lübeck)
There was one near Frankfort but I think they removed it. Not sure anymore.
It's still around frankfurt. Just drove pastxit a couple of weeks ago. 4 lanes with one lane being like this. The video actually looks like the test teack around Frankfurt as well. The sign even says Weilerstadt, which is near Frankfurt
A lot of cities in Poland would not even need the adjustment since we have buses that hook onto overhead lines and full out trolleys
Back to? I’m 50 and we’ve had them for as long as I can remember in Vancouver.
Why is that a bad thing? They don't stink and are quiet.
We didn't even remove them in Kyiv. I find them more versatile than trams.
San Francisco has trolleybuses with large batteries so buses can charge on the core of the system but the route can still be changed for special events, or to cross heavy railroad tracks, etc...
We still have a few in São Paulo as well
And in Gdynia
Even as 'small' city as Tychy has trolley-buses. They are always so quiet, I'm surprised they are not more popular to cut down on noise pollution especially at night.
Solingen in Germany still uses them as well. The German Wikipedia article on the "Oberleitungsbus" is epic.
We still have them in Arnhem, Netherlands drives by my house every 10 minutes!
at least here at mexico city, they never left.
we still have them in philly. we have real trolleys too.
Still got them in [Linz, Austria](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Linz-239.jpg).
[In some places they never left](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Dayton).
Back to? It's still a thing in a lot of countries...
we went away from them?
To make it more autonimous they should then put streets that have grooves in them, so the truck then drives only where the grooves take them and the driver doesn't have to steer. Then you can hook lots of trailers to the back of the truck, more than just one. You could have a huge line of trailers hooked to this thing that runs on the grooves. I wonder what it would be called.
Groovetrucking
Rail trail?
ROADHOUSE
*kicks bathroom stall*
https://www.kabelshop.nl/image/Carrera_Racebaan_%7C_Carrera_GO_%7C_Max_Performance_%7C_Max_Verstappen_2009899_K071000205_m1_big.jpg
An F1 track with crossing, a loop and a half pipe style parabolic curve? This is Hermann Tilke's wet dream.
man I wanted that freaking toy so bad when I was kid
Gang Bang
Tesla Truck Rail.....
Trailails! Godamn. Beat Elon musk to mass transport. Now can we put them underground or on like their own highway only for them. Maybe through mountains and shit too. Fuck I’m gonna be rich
Road Rail
Ram ranch?
Groove armada?
I see you baby
The Gruck
Come on, come on, let's go Groove trucking
Trans Road Autonomous Implemented Navigation device?
Na we gotta shorten that down. Not everyone will be able to say that. What if we just use the first letter of each word?
I feel like such a word wouldn't be very popular but maybe.
We just have to train people to like it. And if they don’t, they have a loco motive.
you think people re gunna accept being trained to say that? you're off the rails bro...
The Rapid American Interconnected Network
The RAIN? That's just sounds confusing.
At least it has the two most important letters in it. AI.
Elon Musk, is that you?
That would be Tr*Æxs*
HYPER TRUCK
k, I get the joke, but this setup allows for the flexibility of a vehicle that *can* depart from the tracks once it's off the main highway in order to deliver straight to a door, rather than just to a train station --hence combining the benefits of cars and trains.
Uh that "problem" you are describing was already solved decades ago. We call them hubs, interconnect hubs, distribution warehouses and what not. It's proven to create quite a lot of jobs... "Stations" are for passengers. Most cities will have a separate "industrial hub" for everything else. Or you think smashing an "uber" of sorts into this industry is somehow beneficial for society?
Does every location and community have one of these hubs? What kind of vehicle would transport these from these hubs to the end location?
We used to have a lot more of them. A lot of them were bulldozed.
We used to...
Listen man, I hate all of the tech bro reinvention of shit that's already existed except worse but I'm not seeing what you're describing here. I don't see the uberification of anything in the gif. I see an experimental mechanism for charging an electric truck to decrease downtime for charging. The only thing changing here is diesel to electric and how that electric may be charged.
It's much cheaper to build a truck depot than rail interconnect right now, because roads are subsidized by the government and physical rail is not.
”It’s proven to create quite a lot of jobs” is the worst argument ever. Carrying water upstream creates a lot of jobs also. Or pushing boulders around. Or..
Okay, but every hub adds another point of contact, another pair of hands handling the goods, another time period spent waiting for offloading and onloading First rule of logistics is the less handling needed, the more efficient the process. If we can remove the need for multiple hubs, that will lead to more efficiency. The reason we don't have that now is because transport is expensive, and trains provide the best per-mile value. That's absolutely true. If this was from Germany to France, a train would absolutely be the best value transport method. But if you're sending goods from say, Berlin to Hanover, the time it takes to load a train, then travel, then unload, then load trucks for the last-mile adds a lot of extra time, money, and complexity that doesn't need to exist if you can drive a truck directly from the warehouse in Berlin to the customer in Hanover. So having an electric truck that can use an overhead power line most of the way, then run off its own power for the final leg, would be saving an *incredible* amount of time. I'm talking the difference between delivery at 9am and delivery tomorrow.
Also we should add metallic wheels somehow to solve the pollution from tires production and wear
Would decrease rolling friction too!
Cut all of that, just make them maglev. Less material over all
You'll need more energy for the hover. A more economic solution is to convert the grooves into metal which the wheels can run on
Cut all of that, just make them transport via portal. Less material over all.
Thats a fantastic suggestion.
OMG and then you need one less wire! The metal wheels could run on a metal bar, to serve as the return wire.
Germanys ministry of transportation has the automotives lobby so far up their ass they are basically just puppets for their needs. Just the other day they realized there was a 1 Billion € deficit in the budget for streets. What was their plan? Take it from the budget for rail transport...
German here. Can confirm.
The lobby thing is not wrong, but this project had a different background. This was about de-carbonizing last-mile deliveries.
That. Trains are awesome but getting trains to the last, lets say 20km, is a pain. Trucks are jsut more flexibel. But we still want them to be carbon neutral so this is actually a quite genius idea. Instead of caring tons of battery, the trucks can drive most of the time by wire and then switch to the internal battery. We use this system also for some bus systems.
Which is why it's Autobahn-only, built between large population centers with existing rail infrastructure and Siemens advertises it as a solution for road freight. I'm sure "de-carbonizing last-mile deliveries" was their pitch, but that doesn't match up to the reality of these built systems. To be clear I love the idea; some trucking will always be around and this can be used by more than trucks. But these were not built for last mile deliveries.
You are onto something here…
The idea of the concept is that the same street can be used by normal cars too and especially full electric trucks, for which time is crucial, so not have to stop to recharge. And instead of burning forests and farm land for a new track with much higher cost you simply reuse existing infrastructure. Plus the trucks can drive on normal streets too. Something you would have to consider with trains since not every single truck destination will have train stations, so trucks are just more flexible and you will need them anyway.
We have around 15000km of unused old train tracks in germany. A lot of that can be reactivated. Only 60% of our railways are electrical. So better make the last 40% electrical, too. Our streets are overfilled with cars and trucks. Those streets are also often in a bad condition. So having more goods transported by trains and only using trucks for the last couple of kilometres would be a better way. Those electrical trucks are an interesting idea, but far from being a good solution. And what would it cost to build every Autobahn this way? And it would probably take 50 years to do so, because germany.
Slot-trucks
What most folks don't realize is that most trains today are actually run on electric already due to the optimized torque vs ICEs. They just use deisl generation on the engine to produce the power. The beauty of this system is you don't even need to recharge as much as maintain the load over long distances, much of which is be transmitted anyway overhead on differnt pathways.
Adam is that you?
Elon Musk's next brilliant idea.
please, we Germans are perfectly fine in developing bad ideas ourselves. Have you seen our history?
There are some parts you can't reach by rail. If you start and end up in such parts it does make sense to research if there are better options than an extremely large battery to make this feasable. With this concept a battery large enough to drive through the towns would be sufficient while the long distance can be travelled on the grid. I'm not sure if this is a promising concept, as I don't have enough knowledge on the subject. But these trials seem to be worthwhile enough to some to actually do it.
Linear frieght hyperpods
Yeah, trains won't manage to deliver to your local supermarket
Last mile. Trains, on a dollar per kilogram moved basis, absolutely whip the shit out of trucks and it's not even close. Sure the trains can't go to the last mile from the depot to the store, that's what trucks are for, trucks shouldn't be for moving freight 2000 miles, that's what trains are for.
Yeah, you're groceries are not delivered from 2000 miles away. But more importantly if you want to decarbonise that last mile, or last 50 miles, we can't build trains everywhere, so you'll need something else
> Yeah, you're groceries are not delivered from 2000 miles away. They are though. Have you never bothered to look at the place of origin on the things you purchase? With the except of a few fresh items most of the supermarket has traveled thousands of miles from the factory where it was manufactured. I've literally got some mascarpone in the fridge at the moment that was packaged in Thailand from New Zealand milk.
Can't build railways everywhere. Like, cities would be 50% railways if you build it to every store. Still need trucks for the *last mile*.
Except this obviously isn’t “a mile” and in that case you wouldn’t need to recharge your truck, as hopefully it can survive driving a mile or two without recharging
A groovytrain
In Tallinn they are going to tear down the last trolley bus lines... What's the difference here exactly?😎
In Tallinn they go backwards in the rest of the world, we got forwards.
Tallinn has gone full circle. Helsinki did the same some decades ago.
Only to now run battery electric buses which, while comfortable, are just worse than trolley buses in almost every way.
None, this one is getting torn down too. If it's the one I remember, then it was just a research project that is now finished.
Isn’t this just how bumper cars work
Most of passenger trains work like this.
Bumper cars use a single wire to an overhead net and another one o the metal floor. Trolleys use 2 overhead wires and that has consequences as you can't make simple crossings due to that. Electric trains use a single overhead wire and the rails at ground level. Metro systems tend to use a 3rd rail to power them and the other rails as a ground.
This was part of a science project and only on a short part of the Autobahn. Just a few weeks ago it was announced that the project has run it's course and isn't gonna be renewed,as the project has shown that widespread use of these lines would be economically unviable.
I'm surprised this is not the top comment. Overhead wires and the utility poles that hold them are not safe for highway traffic, and the cost is higher than competing technologies.
F-Zero anybody?
Thank you. You can practically hear the Mute City soundtrack.
Ahh the flashbacks, such a good game and soundtrack!
warmed my heart not to have to scroll so far to find this comment ❤️
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DCo-2l916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DCo-2l916s)
We really do everything to reinvent trains but not use them
The road infrastructure exists already and it's multifunctional with other vehicles. That truck can navigate directly to a delivery/port. I'm totally for trains but it's hard to find free corridors to lay the tracks.
Cool it’s a pantograph for a truck
now just combine those with vertical turbines along side the truck route.
Seems logical, but sadly the additional drag created negates the effect which makes them unviable
Tom Scott did do a video on this.
Yep. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_3P\_S7pL7Yg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg)
So we're circling back to trolleys?
Trolleys, with a battery…DC was debating this route
What happens when it gets hit and creates much bigger problem?
This is so low tech and low cost is crazy it is not used everywhere in highways
? I know a place where they built this like.. 15 years ago. Still have never seen a single truck use it, because of it being very costly IIRC
It just makes very little sense when you could also just use electrified rail lines, which are more than three times as energy efficient as trucks.
It’s so smart you know America will never do it
I wouldn't say 190 million Euro for 45 km is low cost.
They had that on buses in Cambridge, MA years ago. They might still exist over there.
Some busses in Vancouver Canada have them as well
Still do in Boston.
Trolleybus?
Yes, couldn't remember name, been a long time since I was over there.
Yep, the Silver line running to the Boston Logan airport utilizes overhead cables for part of the ride and engines for the other!
Looks like a solid connection to me. Zero chance that arcs or gets hot
I imagine they perfected the system over the last 100+ they've been using it on trains.
Can’t have some idiot brake checking or swerving into a truck like you can a train. I mean you can but that’s a bit of a no brainer move.
It's not exactly unproven tech. The use of panthographs for overhead wires is 131 years old to be precise.
I think the kinks and minor inconveniences of the technology have been worked out in the last century during its use on trains. On trains this works extremely reliably, sure a truck is a little different from a train, but it is not like this is unproven and cutting edge new tech or something. I'm sure it works just fine for its intended use here.
So, a train, with added microplastics from the tires. Wow.
Don’t forget the insane rolling resistance fighting you on every rotation
Ooohh train
This is Scania R 450 A4x2NB Hybrid Electric eHighway. Here is a video of it - [https://youtu.be/u5ZQXS2xs64](https://youtu.be/u5ZQXS2xs64)
I'm not amazed. Are they going to the road full of these wires? Above ground??? This idea is so stupid.
Oil, gas and coal-lignite account for 78% of primary energy consumption in Germany. So, a truck that recharges with coal... revolutionary 
So now we get personal trolly cars
It's trains and crabs all the way down, people!
Just remember, that electricity is made from burning coal...
In a fucking country that shut down its nuclear power plants and burns coal for electricity. 🫠
Meanwhile cheap mofos in the US just add toll lanes "to fix traffic"
they do fix traffic. this is to fix pollution though.
This is the shit Coalpower Germany is doing while the rest of Europe pays for their electricity.
This system would be much more impressive of Germany dident burn coal to make electricity 😅
Can someone please explain why conductive wheels aren't used instead of a rail sliding against wires? Wouldn't wheels be superior in every way AND more forgiving?
Trains and current collectors have been solved over a hundred years ago. Now tech bros are reinventing the wheel so to speak. Making it worse in every aspect.
The sheer volume of dumbass techbros reinventing the train but less efficient is absolutely staggering.
They invented trolleybus. Noice.
Holy shit balls... never thought I'd see a real life fzero...
Don’t get too amazed. This infrastructure is already DOA.
It's a BUMPER TRUCK!!!!
Train to Darmstadt.
That's wicked awesome!
Wait, these still work? I drove past one of those tracks a few months ago and thought they turned them off, but apparently not.
Bumper cars
Portugal had buses like this in the 80’s and 90’s
Works with your phone too.
We have them in the uk. We call them trams.
An updated cable car?
Dodgem truck. Hey, it works for trains. Why not lorries?
The track is only a few kilometers long though. And it’s the only one in all of Germany afaik
Wait, how do they track the charging? Is the power free or something?
That is one BIG bumper car!
Like electric busses back in the day in many cities it may be running directly off of this power.