Japan introduces magnetic levitation for cars: the end of all engines and batteries

EcoNews ^ | 31/7/24 | D. Garcia

[Eleutheria5]

OK. You need tracks, though.

[HYPOCRACY]

Nah. Magic is good too.

[Boogieman]

Yes, that’s not a car, then, it’s a train. A very small train, but still, a train.

[LastDayz]

And how are all the computer modules on vehicles these days going to handle the EMF’s?

[Openurmind]

“OK. You need tracks, though.”

Some way to aim it would help...

[xoxox]

I was thinking “sails” when trying to fill in the logical blanks.

[nikos1121]

This is really the best long term solution for trains and automobiles. Yes, you have to make tracks, but once you put a few of them in, their production will take off.

[Yo-Yo]

After that, objects, including cars, will operate by moving on it without using any other type of thrust energy such as batteries or motors.

Just because a car floats above a magnet doesn't mean it's going to move, unless the track is sloping downhill.

[xoxox]

a very small train

[xoxox]

repulsion happens.

[marktwain]

For small cars and motorcycles, the most significant “friction” at speeds about 60 mph, is wind resistance.

[cuban leaf]

OK, I just read the excerpt, but it seems that it would need power to go up hills and counteract wind resistance. Unless they are talking about being in the vacuum of space, of course.

[xoxox]

EMF's

Do you mean EMP's?

EMF

[cuban leaf]

It makes me think of the transportation methods in the movie, “Minority Report”. They had those relatively small people movers in the city, but he still had to drive a “normal” car out in the country. I live in rural Kentucky. The road in front of my house gets roughly one car per every hour or two. I don’t think this solution will work there.

[ALASKA]

Hmmmm. I guess I’m not clear on how such a car would suddenly (or not) stop while all its momentum is “floating” on air.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

This “science” is a cult. It’s as though electricity is magic to these people.

I can easily imagine someone living in animal skins in a cave having a similar reaction.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Just paint a “metal” stripe. Equip with collision avoidence and gps.

[silent majority rising]

That is a simple one. You open your car door, put your leg out first, then your shoe on the ground, and apply pressure until the car stops. I saw Fred Flintstone use this procedure.

[Sirius Lee]

repulsion happens.

LOL! You stole my thunder. I was about to say this idea is utterly repulsive.

[adorno]

Just because a car floats above a magnet doesn't mean it's going to move, unless the track is sloping downhill.

Once it's floating, it's jus a matter pf blowing air in the opposite direction of where you want to go. ') You blow south, you go north. Carry a lot of pepper with you to help you sneeze and get propulsion. ;)

But, magnetic levitation can also be used to send you in the direction you want to go. On tracks,it's either one way or the other. So, magnets below for levitation, and magnets in the front or back for movements in different directions.

Question is, how do you park your magnetic levitation vehicle in your driveway or garage? Tracks there too?