Scalextric is fun, but it doesn't make sense for the M1
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 15:50
in Mathematics & Economics
It sounds like something from the pages of books from the 1960s looking to the future: electric cars powered by current drawn from electrified rails beneath the road. However possible such ideas seemed to be 50 years ago, they seem fairly fantastical now – and yet it's exactly this that's being trialed by Britain's Highways Agency.