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derefr on Jan 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Will Become an AI Company

Just want to point out, regarding gas mileage: If the cars have a dedicated lane, that lane can have a power line running through it. You're basically talking about personal light-rail at that point, for which going 200mph is a solved problem.

rmc on Jan 5, 2011 [–]

A power line? Like electric power? So all we need to do is switch to electric cars? How's that going?

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