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The freight rail network is fairly expansive[0] -- sure not as much as the Interstate road network, but has pretty good coverage. The reason trucks are so popu

• AlotOfReading 2y ago
  This wildly misunderstands the nature of modern trucking. Trucks have many different roles, they're not just trains that don't need tracks. Trucks can work as on-demand transport, they can do low-volume, infrequent trips, they can aggregate and offload containers much easier, they're universally receivable at both ends with a minimum of infrastructure, etc. These autonomous trucks are competing with long haul human-driven trucks taking stuff from one depot to another, not short haul trucks.