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Let’s make more vehicles with a single purpose, this will save the environment. One set of wheels and a motor is not complicated enough. We need two sets of those and A motherfucking I to achieve the same thing farmers did as soon as tractors were invented.
What problems does this bullshit solve?
The idea sounds neat for trucks, where one driver could lead a whole fleet of AI trucks in some kind of a road train. But even then there's a whole load of problems e.g. with people overtaking on the oncoming lane or if there's enough space after the intersection for some of the trucks but not all of them. But for RV's? That's dumb AF.
But see the R&D for this could easily go to improving the existing infrastructure of shipping a fleet of trucks single-file along.....
....rails.
What was the name of the law that states that if techbro starts inventing a new form of transportation, they will always come up with shittier form of train given enough time
Thomas the Techbro Theorem
Lmao this is a recurring joke in AdamSomething's video essays.
"Cities of the future" with thousands of suspended, individualized cars on thin rails propelled by their own motors. New shiny dedicated roads with tons of individualized, but linked, passenger cabins. Heck, the hyperloop scam!
But hoo boi don't you dare say train. It sounds so... communal.
Really shows what these lofty designers think of the public they're allegedly designing for.