Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.
And now:
US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive
The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Source: CNNBusiness
In theory, you could build up infrastructure to support automated transport. So, like, idk. Put down little guide rails for vehicles. And then maybe electrify those guide rails, so they also power the vehicles. And then chain all your vehicles together, so one big engine can pull a bunch of individual cars. Maybe even create some sort of durable road material that allows you to clip into the road on steel tires so you don't need to worry about blowouts.
Yeah, remote-drivers would be cheaper in the moment. So that's definitely what we're going to do. But actually upgrading the infrastructure would lower the per-unit cost of transport nationally on the scale of decades rather than just quarters.
That sounds too futuristic to me :blob-no-thoughts: better retrofit predator drone controls with some prisoners controlling them