• Dabundis@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In order for everyone to just freaking go, their cars would have to be attached somehow.

    I wonder if anyone’s ever thought of linking a bunch of cars together so they can all stop and go simultaneously. And hey, since the cars are attached and all need to go to the same place, we can build a track instead of using high maintenance rubber on pavement and-

    oop, we invented trains

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      4 months ago

      I love re-deriving the train when people talk about autonomous cars/trucking and how they can already do the highway part easily

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        4 months ago

        What I dont fucking get is that even in Europe where even in shitty countries like Hungary and Slovakia we have train tracks that’s about thousandfold what the US has, and we still put shit on Semis and have them drive between cities, cities that are all fucking connected by train.

        Why aren’t we fucking putting everything on goddamn fucking trains, and then do only the last miles of the delivery on trucks, they could even be electric as that would eliminate all the drawbacks of electric semis, having them only go short distances