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by ghaff 3358 days ago
And maybe we'll call those autonomous trucks trains or something like that.

(In many/most cases, the long haul overland transportation today is already handled by freight railways. It's unclear how big a win there is to having what amounts to an additional form of intermodal transportation as opposed to just keeping a person around who can also handle breakdowns, etc.)