California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks::California’s State Senate this week passed a bill which, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would require autonomous semi-trailer trucks to have a trained human safety operator whenever they operate on public roads […]
While you’re at it make them pay extra for the amount trucking just fucking eats public infrastructure.
I don’t usually agree with many American leftist talking points, but really what’s it with railways being so little used in the USA? When you need scale with regular routes and regular volumes of anything, it’s unrivaled.
US railways are heavily used. In fact, we have the largest rail network in the world.
The problem is that it’s almost exclusively used for freight.
But rail infrastructure isn’t that good yet in north America.
If only there was a solution to that which keeps getting ignored
Do you want your goods to become stupid expensive or something?
Was not taxing them keeping the costs down? I hadn’t noticed.
Things can cost more.
No, what I really want is more transportation options to get as many fucking people off the road as possible. Covid was beautiful when no one was driving but my company made me.