The Japanese government is planning to connect major cities with automated zero-emissions logistics links that can quietly and efficiently shift millions of tons of cargo, while getting tens of thousands of trucks off the road.
  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    23·
    3 months ago

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

  • kvasir476@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

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

    • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • HeartyOfGlass@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Rin@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

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

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

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