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The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Except that nearly all US rail is for freight. We hate PASSENGER trains. We freaking love freight rail.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Except that's rail only carries 16% of freight by weight and 2% of freight by value.

Pretty sure USA hates freight rail too.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-846-november-10-2014-trucks-move-70-all-freight-weight-and-74-freight-value

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

You're looking at a different issue. I'm referring to passenger trains vs freight trains and you're talking about freight trains vs semi trucks. I'm saying that the rail we do have, we overwhelmingly use for freight. It's the primary reason we still have trains today in the US.

In regards to percentage of freight shipped by rail vs other means, I believe you that semis take a ton of that.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But american freight trains are laughably bad too

https://youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, but "we will avoid trains no matter what" is blatantly false. It's terrible, but it is our main method of shipping freight from ports to inland cities.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And semi rigs (which are the topic of this post) are....personal transport?