Comment on California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks

Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    oil and car lobbies dominate congress.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You sure are right, bud. I beseach you, have you thought of the money to be made by convincing a nation to become dependant on your industry?

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• bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you want your goods to become stupid expensive or something?

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was not taxing them keeping the costs down? I hadn’t noticed.

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Things can cost more.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cost is determined more by what people are willing to pay and less by what it costs to make the product.

        If they can charge $5 for a bottle of water, they’re going to do that whether it’s costs $1 or $2 to make.

        So if they could increase costs today, they would. An increased tax would give them a politically friendly exercuse to do so, but it’s just an excuse. They’d do it either way.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, what I really want is more transportation options to get as many fucking people off the road as possible. Covid was beautiful when no one was driving but my company made me.

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• stepan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But rail infrastructure isn’t that good yet in north America.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only there was a solution to that which keeps getting ignored

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