Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldM to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square571fedilinkarrow-up12.23Karrow-down1156
arrow-up12.07Karrow-down1image[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?lemmy.worldFried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldM to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square571fedilink
minus-squareutopianfiat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·1 year agoOh no, not equipment. Surely nobody has ever moved equipment on a train.
minus-squareHypnoctopus@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoBut how do you transport equipment from the train station to the location equipment needs to arrive at?
minus-squareutopianfiat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·1 year agoDepends on how much equipment you’re talking about. The vast majority of tradespeople could have a rolling toolkit on a pushcart. For everything bigger there’s likely to still be commercial road freight.
minus-squareCarterlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·1 year agoWhen you can’t carry it all in one go a train is useless.
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Oh no, not equipment. Surely nobody has ever moved equipment on a train.
But how do you transport equipment from the train station to the location equipment needs to arrive at?
Depends on how much equipment you’re talking about. The vast majority of tradespeople could have a rolling toolkit on a pushcart. For everything bigger there’s likely to still be commercial road freight.
When you can’t carry it all in one go a train is useless.