Re: Induction vs reasoning
Slow moving traffic just won't work. Stationary traffic might, if you can stop exactly on the sweet spot. Since all vehicles are not the same length, if everyone tries to stop over a coil traffic will spread out and reduce road capacity even lower than it already is.
If only there were examples from history that we can learn from, as we did when we rediscovered wind power. So-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Van_Depoele
Near the end of 1887, thirteen North American cities had electric railways in operation; nine of these systems were designed by Van Depoele, and used overhead lines to transmit electric current from an electrical generator to the electric locomotives on the rails.
Some are still in use, a lot were displaced when the infernal combustion engine became dominant. Most common use is probably on private 'roads', aka railways. Overhead would probably be cheaper to install and maintain than trying to dig up roads and bury induction systems, although there could be some fringe benefits from doing that, ie induction systems also acting as road heaters to de-ice them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
