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		function_seven on July 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Wh... > No idea on the cost of this Driveway systems require about 35W per square foot when operating. Imagine a 36' wide road, and you're looking at around 6MW per mile. That's a lot.

bluedino on Aug 1, 2018 | [–]

Add more power and have the roads charge the car like in F-Zero

PeterisP on Aug 1, 2018 | [–]

It may be done if there's a cheap mass source of e.g. geothermal energy. IIRC the main streets on Reykjavik, Iceland are heated this way to avoid cleaning snow, but that's because they're pretty much sitting on top of volcanoes.

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