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Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by waterlesscloud »

logfromblammo wrote: post #29

It's nice to have goals, but I can't help thinking that the incremental improvement of this over just plugging in a dumb cable by hand is not going to be as large as some of the other things Tesla could be working on. It also seems like this sort of thing would be making the business less focused as an electric car company. So if anything, it should be a cable that emerges from the car to plug into an appropriate pow…

It's just a step along the way to the endgame of the having on-the-road refueling, with Tesla refueling stations endlessly roaming the highways and plugging into Tesla passenger vehicles without even slowing down.

(You can't rule it out, can you? Heh.)

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by beltex »

pearjuice wrote: post #24

Cannot wait for Rule 34 to come into effect. edit: I mean that it would be interesting to see this technology getting used for creative purposes. I hope Tesla will be permissive in people adapting their technology and not - if it is real - put it behind a massive patent and licensing wall before anyone can put their hands on it.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-yo...

:)

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by tomphoolery »

gfodor wrote: post #20
acd wrote: post #17

This seems way to complicated why not just have a device under your car that injects the power socket. Like for example park the front wheels on a platter that by the weight of the car injects the socket.

How is this less complicated? In your case you'd need to install something non-standard connected to high voltage power in the floor of your garage and then have to carefully park your car every time. It'd be expensive and tricky to install, and impose a mental burden every single time you park your car. Not to mention that it would have moving parts that are often put under strain (particularly in those instances wh…

The robotic snake just sounds hella inaccurate. Like it's so out there it's bound to be unreliable.

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by Multiplayer »

ape4 wrote: post #15

Cool, but its not exactly taxing to get out of the car to plug it in.

2 things: 1. Sometimes I'm in a hurry and I think I will plug it in later... and I don't. And that turns out to be a bummer. :) 2. If this thing parks itself, it has to plug itself in, or there is little point to the self parking.

I love my tesla. It's incredible. Best car I've ever owned. I've owned... 20 cars? But it has to be charged daily or it's a liability.

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by Rezo »

revscat wrote: post #9

Is there any existing tech that even approaches this? Tesla cars are an evolution and improvement upon tech that previously existed. Ditto Space X. But I'm not aware of anything that even approaches Doc Ock-like articulating cables/hoses that are able to overcome the force of gravity.

Yes, take a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gU6TWGynkU

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by elsewhen »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #31
logfromblammo wrote: post #29

It's nice to have goals, but I can't help thinking that the incremental improvement of this over just plugging in a dumb cable by hand is not going to be as large as some of the other things Tesla could be working on. It also seems like this sort of thing would be making the business less focused as an electric car company. So if anything, it should be a cable that emerges from the car to plug into an appropriate pow…

It's just a step along the way to the endgame of the having on-the-road refueling, with Tesla refueling stations endlessly roaming the highways and plugging into Tesla passenger vehicles without even slowing down. (You can't rule it out, can you? Heh.)

Inductive chargers within the road may be the endgame:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129534.900-wireless-...

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by samatman »

gfodor wrote: post #21
Retric wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have been around for 20+ years. It's called a laptop Base station / Docking station. There on a fairly wide range of buissness laptops sadly that's one of the ports that Apple does not seem to support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_station

The advantage of a solution like this is that you don't have to find the cable (or in the case of a docking station, the place to put the laptop), the cable finds you. So you could put your laptop down anywhere in the office, and in theory, a cord would eventually wind its way over to you to plug itself in.

By design, such an object would have the power and capacity to strangle you in your sleep, lacking only appropriate software.

Is this truly a convenience?

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by notatoad »

logfromblammo wrote: post #29

It's nice to have goals, but I can't help thinking that the incremental improvement of this over just plugging in a dumb cable by hand is not going to be as large as some of the other things Tesla could be working on. It also seems like this sort of thing would be making the business less focused as an electric car company. So if anything, it should be a cable that emerges from the car to plug into an appropriate pow…

When the car has a human driver, plugging it in when you park is easy. If the vision is self-driving cars that drop you off and then go park themselves, an autonomous charger becomes a lot more useful.

Re: Tesla Is Working on Robotic Snakes That Emerge from the Wall to Charge Your Car

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Post by hueving »

samatman wrote: post #37
gfodor wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The advantage of a solution like this is that you don't have to find the cable (or in the case of a docking station, the place to put the laptop), the cable finds you. So you could put your laptop down anywhere in the office, and in theory, a cord would eventually wind its way over to you to plug itself in.

By design, such an object would have the power and capacity to strangle you in your sleep, lacking only appropriate software. Is this truly a convenience?

>Is this truly a convenience?

Yes, and stop sleeping at your desk. :)

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