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Thing is this puts it in a narrow band of competitiveness between human-driven trucks (less capital-intensive, more expensive over time) and trains or sea ports
by Untit1ed 8y ago
Thing is this puts it in a narrow band of competitiveness between human-driven trucks (less capital-intensive, more expensive over time) and trains or sea ports (more capital-intensive but still cheaper than automated trucks). A lot of bigger cities where it makes economic sense to have this kind of hub-and-spoke model will already have trains and ports too, so it's a bit dicey.
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- konschubert 8y agoWhat you can do, is to have the driver sleep in the cabin during the long leg of the journey and then drive just between highway and hub. This means that instead of two drivers, you're not just paying two.
- rtkwe 8y agoDoing that would require 100% autonomous and the legal allowances across the whole nation. There's also some very specific rule around what counts as rest for drivers and I'm not sure that would qualify as rest under the current rules.