What if the electricity generated was used to power the street lights ahead of a few meters ahead of the car?

That way, the lights could be off or dim, and only light up if a car is approaching, reducing energy consumption AND light pollution.

Sounds good? I think so

simply based on the conservation of energy, this road creates an in-efficiency in the vehicle, while leeching a fraction of the loss into surrounding areas…. this designer should be hired by Steorn and their goons.

There is no such thing as free energy. If you’re getting it from cars, you’re causing their gasoline engines (one of the LEAST efficient commercially popular generating systems) to do more of their inefficient work.

If this was inside something that the car needed to drive over and slow down in the process – speed humps, perhaps – it would make sense. As is? Idiocy.

If the honorable designer has a way of producing electric current without using any energy, let him come forth and stride humanity into a utopean future right now!

Until then, we’re bound by the laws of hermodynamics; and these tiles will use more energy than they’ll produce. Energy “stolen” from your car, that is, which will make the gasoline engine work harder to compensate.

This is like sticking a wind turbine on your car: more waste than gain.

wrong technology in the wrong place. piezo transducers could have a better chance at trying to accomplish this.

But if you want sustainable energy, solar, wind, geothermal and oceanic are the way to go.