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Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks(newatlas.com)

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brown567@sh.itjust.works
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Hot new invention! Train.

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Rednax@lemmy.world
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Nah. This is different. This is a train with many more points of failure. If any part of a conveyorbelt stops, the whole belt has to halt. And if they use self driving trucks, a failure in any one of the trucks can still cause a traffic jam.

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brown567@sh.itjust.works
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I did notice that upon actually reading the article XD

It’s actually just trucks but the entire road is the drivetrain and every truck is driving all the time. If that sounds like “better” to you, then you may be a techbro

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jagermo@feddit.org
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So. A long cargo train?

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mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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All animals tend towards reinventing crab, all transport solutions tend towards reinventing train

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kvasir476@lemmy.world
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Japan, you were supposed to deliver us to our train powered future, not leave us in Tesla tunnels.

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derpgon@programming.dev
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Actually seems like a good idea. I wonder how long will it take for construction cost to offset regular trucks, but it will get them off the road, and hopefully keep them out of sight.

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ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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It’s only real if it comes from the Conveyor region in southern France. Everything else is just sparkling trains.

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