Chuckanut
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Here's an idea whose time may have come - Autonomous trains. Four times more efficient that trucks, easier to make autonomous than car or trucks, they may be the way more good are moved in the future.
The article is behind a paywall so here are some quotes I found interesting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to...ogged-infrastructure-robot-trains-11633812291
But it's not all a bowl of cherries:
The article is behind a paywall so here are some quotes I found interesting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to...ogged-infrastructure-robot-trains-11633812291
But researchers who study the matter say that making them fully autonomous could improve their safety and also significantly increase the amount of freight that can be carried on America’s rail network, by making more efficient use of it.
trains—which are four to five times as efficient in energy used per mile as trucks
Most important, trains are on tracks, which means an artificial intelligence train engineer doesn’t have to worry about issues affecting drivers of cars or trucks—no tailgating, lane changes, left turns against traffic, and so on.
But it's not all a bowl of cherries:
Despite the head of steam engineers have built up, automatic train drivers aren’t ready to be rolled out just anywhere, cautions Dr. Dulebenets. Most autonomous trains are built on new and dedicated tracks they do not have to share with other, human-controlled trains. These newer systems tend not to include hazards like highway crossings, where the vast majority of accidents involving trains and motor vehicles happen in the U.S. every year.
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