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Detroit is now home to the country's first chunk of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether it's parked or moving.

Why it matters: Wireless charging on an electrified roadway could remove one of the biggest hassles of owning an EV: the need to stop and plug in regularly.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No, obviously not. But they also don’t have stations in rural areas where there are houses with many, many miles between them.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's nice. It's a small percentage of the population, and getting smaller. They can keep using cars if they want. We don't need to hold back all other progress on their account.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 11 months ago

Cool, of course that has nothing to do with the original argument….

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

To be honest, I do see where you are coming from. If we had public transportation as good as our network of roads, people would have incentives to cluster up in the first place.

Shape defines function and function defines form. In this case that means the public transit would be built near the denser populations which will then cause people to move closer to the transport I on for ease of moving goods. It's why these other countries look the way they do, they didn't plan these out 3000 years in advance.