Tonight We Consider Slot Cars

    Last night, we explored the idea of "bumper cars" ("trolley cars" would be another thing to call them).

   Tonight: Slot cars. It seems it would take a lot more money to tear up all the streets of the city to install slots for the cars to get their electricity through. Rail cars, then? Those seem impossible. If you have electricity flowing through rails open to be touched, even if they are embedded, surely it is completely impractical. 

   So, slot cars. (No more swerving into the wrong lane of traffic.) The slot device could be attached to the bottom of the cars, and the cars, themselves, would all have to been adapted for electric propulsion before they entered the public roadway system, same as if you went with a bumper car system. 

   You choose the word I used above to respond to this: Impractical.

   Still, in a world of brainstorming, let's think it through. It would take quite the busy auto shop to convert all the cars in a city to be slot-powered. But, you wouldn't need to convert them all at once. Do you government fund it? Because, most people aren't going to rush out and pay for it out of their own pockets.

   Off top, I say, let the person pay for it. Yes, that probably means small participation. I'm just not thinking government can afford it. So, that is what we are left with. There might develop, though, a prestige factor, or a civic-patriotism factor in which people become excited to participate and "do the right thing."

   There is the question of what happens to the slot device when you reach your driveway. I guess it could disconnect and wait your use in the morning.  You are not removing the combustion engine -- these cars would be hybrids -- so it disconnects and you drive on in to your garage. 

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