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California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks (driveteslacanada.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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 [...]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] hoch 16 points 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.

[–] Fedizen 14 points 1 year ago

oil and car lobbies dominate congress.

[–] Sanctus 5 points 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?