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California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks::California’s State Senate this week passed a bill which, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would require autonomous semi-trailer trucks to have a trained human safety operator whenever they operate on public roads [...]

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[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't usually agree with many American leftist talking points, but really what's it with railways being so little used in the USA? When you need scale with regular routes and regular volumes of anything, it's unrivaled.

[-] hoch@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

US railways are heavily used. In fact, we have the largest rail network in the world.

The problem is that it's almost exclusively used for freight.

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