Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.
  • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Not necessarily. A 40 tonne lorry damages the motorway as much as 1000 160’000 passenger cars. It will lead to the state having to renew the road surfaces every few years. Rails don’t have that problem, they’ll happily take 100 tonnes for decades.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The point I’m making is that the government has already decided to maintain the highways, so continuing on is the status quo. If they wanted to make new railroads they’d have to expend political capital to get anything new funded.