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Candy Bar Packaging Machine Looks Like Automotive Solutions of the Future

By Rain Noe - May 6, 2011

in Tech | Cars

Watching this automated candy bar packaging machine made by Bosch, I was struck by how much it was like watching parts of a Formula 1 race:

It also makes me think superhighways would be cool to drive on if you could shut the car off entirely, and the highway itself—in the form of a huge conveyor belt complete with chicanes and automatic exit sorters—did all of the work.

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GabeS

13 years ago

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There's a sci-fi short fiction with that exact concept:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
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powers

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The best part is at the beginning of the conveyor where they are all creeping along and then suddenly start taking off like a herd of startled Zebras.
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