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

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[–] brown567 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hot new invention! Train.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brown567 2 points 5 months ago

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