Saturday, February 28, 2009

Rocky Mountain Institute

Estimating 64% energy gains from advanced tractor-trailer design.

More standard desing, diesel-electric hybrid freight hauler. So, take the electric, pass it down and recover savings in four wheel drive friction reduction. Looking elsewhere we can find trailer design with turnable wheels, so we are a short hop from silicon autonomy for the trailer.

RMI finds big savigs in air flow managment, a feet easily done by trailer nose to rear, silicon controlled, turnable, running ten to twenty in a train, powered by hybrid electric tractor.

Autonomy can mean simple things, like the ability for a traffic manager to move them around the parking lot by remote control. Following nose to rear is a small step up, guided by remote control from the human manged diesel hybrid.

But we have to deal with these nutty patents, where someone re-patented the carnation delivery van from 50 years ago. But the ultimate plot here is upon us, in controlled, public venues, autonomous delivery. Gated communities adopting automated delivery would likely move the large auto oto outside parking, lowering the overall cost of traffic.

The method is coupled to immediate shopping, immediate even in the sense of shopping from current video of inenvory. Shopping center food court venues could have distributed seating un-related to the particular kitchen.

Autonomous people movers in controlled pulic enironments exist already. A controlled community could easily justify an increase above trend in house prices of 15% by yielding to a completely autonomous last mile traffic solution.

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