Harry Chickpea wrote:
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Convert one HOV lane on a freeway to bicycles only and barricade it
off from other traffic. One freeway lane could probably fit four bike
lanes, two in each direction. Put four lines of your coils in the
roadway, equip the bikes with a drop-down metal plate, magnet, or
coil, and phase the energising of the road coils to power the bikes at
25 mph. Since the bikes would be forced into traveling at a constant
rate of speed relative to each other, and have to center over the
energised coils, accidents would be minimized and there would be no
traffic jams caused by "slowpoke" drivers. Make a covered recumbant
bike to keep the elements off the rider, and a lot of commuters would
be interested.

Until some wiz-kid figures out a method of moving the plates,
magnets or altering the coils to double or triple the speed.

Anthony