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Using street lamps as EV chargers

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61 points rbanffy | 7 comments | 04 Nov 25 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source | bottom
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blitzar ◴[12 Nov 25 11:52 UTC] No.45899022[source]▶
In a documentary about a homeless encampment (in america) I viewed not long ago, the residents had spliced into a lamp post to provide power to their and their neighbours tents. It was truly a hacker inspired, move fast and break things approach.

This research seems to be inspired by the same content and appears to be an attempt to commercialise the same technology.

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1. tomaskafka ◴[12 Nov 25 11:57 UTC] No.45899079[source]▶
I can’t wait for people and companies to realize “oh no, we only wanted to give easy electricity access to rich people’s cars, not to the homeless people, let’s add another layer of dystopia to fix that”
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2. rbanffy ◴[12 Nov 25 12:39 UTC] No.45899422[source]▶
It's just a matter of DRM-ing the smart connectors.
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3. Gravityloss ◴[12 Nov 25 13:03 UTC] No.45899637[source]▶
Maximum fragmentation, everything else is communism
4. potato3732842 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:09 UTC] No.45899699[source]▶
And after they implement the dystopia they'll inevitably use it to go after petty deviance by people who are rich enough to pay fines and leave the homeless who were the pretext for the dystopia un-bothered except just enough to let the useful idiots continue to think that that is in fact the purpose of the system.
5. ta20240528 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:25 UTC] No.45900579[source]▶
The homeless folk can nick the nice thick copper to strike back at the establishment. Or to by drugs.
6. dlcarrier ◴[12 Nov 25 15:56 UTC] No.45901718[source]▶
Homeless or not, their biggest concern is probably whether or not customers are paying for the electricity they use.
7. bobro ◴[12 Nov 25 21:24 UTC] No.45906942[source]▶
I don’t know if I’d describe safeguards against misusing electrical systems as dystopian. If a system is made for a specific purpose and misuse is highly dangerous and disruptive, I’d certainly support reasonable safeguards.