Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
by fleischhauf on Sunday January 14, 2024 @02:36PM
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you mean like a .. train
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Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
by skybrian on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:07PM
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No. Trains are great for what they do, but roads go more places.
Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
by BobaFloutist on Sunday January 14, 2024 @06:01PM
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Do roads have to go more places? Are they dramatically cheaper and easier to make and cheaper to maintain than train tracks? Or do we just already have a bunch of them?
Mind you I'm not taking about last-mile dirt road up a mountain to one family, but the massive arteries with enormous throughput that constitute the vast majority of lbs/mile of shipping.
Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
by sarchertech on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:22PM
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Railroads have much much stricter requirements with respect to maximum allowed curvature and slope. So yes roads can go far more places than rails can.
Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
by BobaFloutist on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:44PM
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Duly noted
Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
by k_process on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:26AM
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or like a … road train https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train