• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    Yeah I can only think of people envisioning small downtown stores only using small trucks/vans or the weird one underground cargo tracks (there is a startup in Texas pushing for that one).

    Even then trucking tends to just make more sense from everything I’ve experienced, but what do I know

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      27 days ago

      Underground cargo tracks is a nice idea, but hardly realistic. Can you imagine ripping open the whole city to build that, and the cost of such an undertaking?

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        27 days ago

        If I remember right they were planning smaller deployments (think building scale, neighborhood scale) with boring tech being the solution to installation.

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          27 days ago

          This can only provide a local solution. To make this work on a larger scale, you need the city to be built for this. So basically, this is a very long term thing.