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Do you really have a privately owned rail car in order to go fast? It sounds to me more like a self-driving campervan, you can sit back and watch the world roll
by taneq 1y ago
Do you really have a privately owned rail car in order to go fast? It sounds to me more like a self-driving campervan, you can sit back and watch the world roll by.
- nmeofthestate 1y agoSounds like the kind of thing a billionaire would do in a Neal Stephenson book.
- nmeofthestate 1y ago(actually I think it is something a billionaire does in a NS book)
- taneq 1y agoIt's definitely something a zillionaire does in a Peter F. Hamilton book, except instead of a rail car it's a zepplin. I mean, if I were a zillionaire I guess I'd live in a zepplin too.
- bombcar 1y agoI think everyone pretty much has to admit that “robber baron with zeppelin” is the peak billionaire style.
- 4ggr0 1y agoThey travel by train in Termination Shock, a book by NS :)
- m463 1y agoI think the railcar equivalent will eventually become reality (if it isn't already) Lots of people tool around in giant class-a motorhomes. They are 40 or 45 feet long. They are basically small apartments with double-door fridges, dishwasher, washer/dryer, starlink, etc if they add the self-driving stuff, it will make them extra popular. I think mobileye might have something.
- bombcar 1y agoI wonder if there’s a market for “flatbed car with an RV strapped on top” like some type of auto train.
- stockresearcher 1y agohttps://www.amtrak.com/auto-train https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train I wish they offered this on more routes.