The easy, low-cost solution is to build freight rail. But no, that’s communism and it doesn’t get a tech billionaire their extra billion.
Somehow capitalists all over the world love freight trains. It’s just US being dumb as always.
US freight rail is fine and a lot of cargo goes by train for the most part. There’s still gotta be trucks to get to and from the terminal. Not many facilities have built in rail spurs, or the need to ship an entire train load at once for that matter
So what’s the point of the OPs comment?
Rails are indeed one of the cheapest, best scaling, and most reliable ways to move goods no doubt, but it also has a last mile problem.
Just wanted to point out the solution isn’t as easy as “rails all things”. Trucks still do offer some situational advantages, and will still have their place in logistics.
The place of trucks in logistics is in hell, delivering coal.
If it can be done economically, it’ll be done. And it has been, the freight rail network in the US is huge.
That is literally the most dangerous bike lane in existence
JFC, whose bright idea was that?
The buddy of the governor who got the contract lul. At least that’s what happened in my friends small town when they built a roundabout that took 4 years to finish for a small 4 lane intersection that had stops before on a road that got maaaaaybe 12 cars a day
That 12 cars a day is probably the biggest reason it took so long. When you don’t want to spend money you prioritize more important projects.
I’m sure glad we developed technology just to avoid paying one person to drive that truck. This is progress and will not have knock on consequences. We should celebrate this.
This, but unironically. Automation is a good thing, and every driver who loses their job over this drives the necessity of finding post-automation solutions that much closer to the breaking point.
Oh yes, I’m sure our current socioeconomic systems will get right on finding post automation solutions. That’ll happen real soon now. I mean, it’ll have to happen, right? We won’t just let all the jobs dissolve away so that shareholders get richer, right? That would be crazy to do that. I can’t imagine a society that would possibly do that, could you?
This must have been intentional
King Harlaus: heavy breathing
