Hot new invention! Train.

All animals tend towards reinventing crab, all transport solutions tend towards reinventing train

Uh…trains anyone?

So. A long cargo train?

It’s only real if it comes from the Conveyor region in southern France. Everything else is just sparkling trains.

Japan, you were supposed to deliver us to our train powered future, not leave us in Tesla tunnels.

This idea is so lazy they even used generative AI to create the concept art 😂

Because this is somehow more convenient for everyone than building high speed railways?

Exactly how it’ll do this is yet to be nailed down, but individual pallets will carry up to a ton of small cargo items, and they’ll move without human interference from one end to the other.

Someone’s been playing Factorio.

So a train of truck? trackless train?

I see Factorio is popular in Japan as well.

Looks like the engineers at the Tokyo-Osaka prefectures have been playing too much Satisfactory.

To be fair, the idea is interesting, transporting cargo in a way that can be mostly automated is good. The problem is when any part of the automation fails for any reason, like a container getting stuck, things can pile up, fall off or get damaged in a number of ways.

Smart. I assume this will reuse the current tracks already used to run Shinkansen trains as they are replaced, which is fantastic.