i dont think i get it... everyone bone in my body screams "rear ending car acedents" when i look at that. The control on the sensors

will have to be really kick ass rocking.. in order to stop the cars from crashing if a none attached car causes an accident.

interesting concept... this won't happen for a while in Cali

i think this is key though..

"We're looking at what it would take to get platooning on public highways without making big changes to the public highways themselves,"

because there is no way in hell they would ever consider ripping all the roads up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch

im still a little confused as to how they are going to make sure not to cause chain reaction pile ups with this.

i dont see how someone in the middle of the chain can leave without affecting the people trailing along behind them..

mm yeah.. hehe the whole thing is just lost to me. To many bad things can happen with that when you have free will drivers along with

people wanting to get into trains and then get out.

i think you'd have to have "train only lanes" - like car pooling lanes. i think it's 100% feasible.

i'd trust a caravan like that more than the jackasses on the road today

hmmm.. that honestly makes me think about how people get that close behind semi trucks to get caught in pulling air there and save on gas

same.

I think it's a great idea, i'm eager to see what the outcome after testing is like

i could see this being really useful for truckers actually. but at distances to make this useful they really ought to have a train system.

this is ingenius

aint it? it lets a public transportation system exist in a culture where people dont want to give up their cars

yeah... we'll see if it ever catches on in america without some kind of government tax break involved... haha

Image 5 shows how a car leaves the train! I have to agree with Jesse about it not happening in CA for a while, if ever.

yeah i saw that but how do the last two cars get back if they're clearly NOT DRIVING when in the train?

do they get notified when someone wants to leave too so they can turn their cars back on

?

The Lead vehicle controls everything.. their speed etc.

but when there is a car sized gap, what happens?

it like a giant magnet?

lol the article doesn't say anything about that, it's probably all electronically controlled somehow. like you know how you open garage

doors to a certain extent. idunno

man i just can't imagine a car leaving, the other cars making room for it, then the cars speeding up and joining the line again all smoothly

i'd love to see it in action!

Hahaha It's probably a slow change... one at a time kind of deal. Honestly, I wouldn't do this road train unless I was always the rear.

lol, i think it'd be fine. i swear i've see trains handle losing a car and then moving on. or maybe that was a heist movie.

real trains are so different. They are actually connected with stuff. You unhook one, the others being it and no longer connected to the

train. i think that was totally a movie xD

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so what if you just hooked the cars together?

can you can't go freely when you need to? Is it just like.. you see a train, you can join up with it till you want to leave it? or do you

have to join it at the beginning?

did you read the article? it explains how that works

the only thing i didn't get was at how far of a distance it does it from

lol