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0 pointsmanquer2y ago0 comments

Remote does not mean just sitting in a room far away. It could be simply one truck with a lead driver and few automated ones following it closely. Road trains are an option. Even just two autonomous trailers to a lead truck will reduce the driver costs by 2/3rds.

Unlike autonomous cars where everyone needs to go wherever, inter city trucks have fixed well known routes with predicable volume of cargo that can be easily chained together.

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anticensor2y ago

> one truck with a lead driver and few automated ones following it closely.

Bulk freight trains solve that problem already. Simply use flatcars or intermodal containers then use rubber tyred trucks in the last kilometre.

manquerOP2y ago

Nobody is arguing that rail would be better if they exist ,however coverage is not good enough now and that doesn’t look it will change anytime soon.

Given the realities we have , road trains is probably what we can realistically achieve I think .

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