I wonder if someone sat down and really looked at the legistation and the engineering, if we couldn’t get away with cheaper solutions. Cars have something like a dozen purpose built computers now, can’t we just replace all that bs with a standard piece of hardware? Lane tracking, eye tracking, it’s like everything they do is bespoke.

honstly it seems like it’s a pretty fucking low bar to make a low-tech vehicle. The designs and plans have been around for a REALLY long time.

It’s mostly issues with legislation and efficiency and billionaire companies trying to stop it.

Putting them in parking lots is way more TCO.

Risk to other peoples property

You’re putting them 20 ft in the air so any maintenance is a lot harder.

Expense for the super sturdy structure to hold them over a car.

The upsides are it keeps the cars protected and if you don’t have a field that makes sense…