• Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    This is how you get the US to finally agree on a large scale train system: can them trucks.

    • Poggervania@kbin.social
      31·
      10 months ago

      Rail trucks.

      Hell, they could probably get away with re-marketing trains rail trucks by talking about how much horsepower they have, how big they are, and how they can even pull other cars in a single line.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    What if you link a whole bunch of them together, and then instead of having each cart be self propelled, you could have one car that pushes all of the linked cars at once? Sounds way more efficient to me. If only there was a name for a long chain of linked cars…

  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    That sounds like a horrible idea logistically, you still need to ship stuff from a cargo terminal to the location its needed and putting single containers on rail as their own “train” makes traffic a absolute nightmare there will never not be some kind of truck unless we can Teleport shit around or airships become a cheap, fast and reliable option.

    • Danatronic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      The problem is mostly that we don’t build rail spurs in industrial areas anymore. If we did, then these cars could detach from trains at a shunting yard, and split up to head to all their different destinations individually. But the only last-mile infrastructure we currently have is roads.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    10 months ago

    I have nothing intelligent to add, but I just want to say that I sincerely hate cars. This sub isn’t a joke to me, I wish those god damn things were never invented.

    I’m tired of breathing their cancer-causing fumes, I’m tired of the honking and screeching, I’m tired of worrying I’ll get run over just walking around my neighborhood, I’m tired of micro plastics in my brain because some fat asshole was too lazy to ride a bike, I’m tired of climate change threatening global stability. Sorry for the rant.