- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
Hot new invention! Train.
So. A long cargo train?
All animals tend towards reinventing crab, all transport solutions tend towards reinventing train
Japan, you were supposed to deliver us to our train powered future, not leave us in Tesla tunnels.
Actually seems like a good idea. I wonder how long will it take for construction cost to offset regular trucks, but it will get them off the road, and hopefully keep them out of sight.
Uh…trains anyone?
It’s only real if it comes from the Conveyor region in southern France. Everything else is just sparkling trains.
This idea is so lazy they even used generative AI to create the concept art 😂
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.
Yeah, just gotta use some automatic inserters and splitters.
So a train of truck? trackless train?
Because this is somehow more convenient for everyone than building high speed railways?
That was the first thought that popped into my head too :)
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.
Why would they use Shinkansen tracks for something so unaerodynamic?
They’re rebuilding and replacing the aging train fleet and had a bunch of ideas of how to reuse the existing tracks without scrapping them. This might be an answer to that problem.
They’re rebuilding and replacing the aging train fleet and had a bunch of ideas of how to reuse the existing tracks
Ah, makes sense. I was not aware of that.