In my case, it was a hackerspace. It has windows to the street, so if the police would have happened to go along the street and see that, they could have intervened.
There was one report in the newspapers where they fined a small card playing organization due to that, but of course they were a group of people.
In my country, there was a mask mandate in all enclosed areas except private residences, even when you were the only person there.
This might be very specific to the US. Here in Europe, SUVs aren’t nearly as prevalent, and trucks don’t drive on the same roads as cyclists do. In my experience, when I’m going 30km/h, I’m no longer a roadblock for cars.
However, bike paths aren’t designed for the kinds of speeds you’d get with that thing. I’m driving an e-bike, and I have to brake to a near standstill whenever I get to a bend in a bike path, because for some reason the planners think that bikes can turn on a dime. Also, in my city we have a lot of mixed bike/pedestrian paths, and pedestrians don’t appreciate it when you drive by with 30km/h within a few centimeters. I’ve also had people who froze like a deer in headlights when I approached.
That article is nearly a month old.
There are a few YouTube videos out there where science communicators (one of them is Kyle Hill) do a few basic calculations on these projects and conclude that it’s impossible.
For example, the mirrors would need to be a swarm of satellites that are launched by hundreds of rockets every day for decades with no pauses.
This is very exciting. Unfortunately, AMD card won’t be able to benefit from this, making the GPU market ever more fragmented.