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 […]
While you’re at it make them pay extra for the amount trucking just fucking eats public infrastructure.
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.
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.
oil and car lobbies dominate congress.
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?
But rail infrastructure isn’t that good yet in north America.
If only there was a solution to that which keeps getting ignored
Do you want your goods to become stupid expensive or something?
Was not taxing them keeping the costs down? I hadn’t noticed.
Things can cost more.
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.
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.