Trucker crashes after falling asleep driving 40ton deathmachine

[u/MdTooDevilish]

This piece of shit driving all over the road putting other peoples lives at risk

[u/MoodVast9430]

Driverless trucks will stop this

[u/Corronchilejano → u/MoodVast9430]

How about an AI that just blows an airhorn over a driver falling asleep?

[u/KamaliKamKam → u/Corronchilejano]

How about... a WELL MAINTAINED RAIL NETWORK spanning the US? Maybe even with a bonus passenger high speed rail going up and down east and west coast, with a cross continental one going from east coast to Texas to west coast if we're getting really frisky?

Load 300 to 400 trucks worth of stuff on one train and two people to take turns driving the train and really significantly reduce the amount of drive time for getting goods to where they need to be.

[u/HegemonNYC → u/KamaliKamKam]

The US has the most developed freight rail system in the world. 

[u/HegemonNYC → u/[deleted]]

The US has a very underdeveloped passenger rail system. This is distinct from freight rail. The US moves literally 10x more freight by rail than Europe. 

[u/KamaliKamKam → u/HegemonNYC]

and it could still be so much better, and should be better upkept, and maybe even not controlled by two monopolies that want to abuse their workers and cut corners to save pennies while rail upkeep is neglected to save share holder profits

[u/HegemonNYC → u/KamaliKamKam]

10x Europe and still insufficient.

[u/KamaliKamKam → u/HegemonNYC]

Yeah, the US is also much larger than Europe and the items that come in on shipping ports have further to go when they need to go to inland locations vs an item that comes into a European port. We should have a better rail transport system, because more rail means trucks can be allotted for more localized shipping, which is more efficient and better for people/workers, the environment, and for traffic.

[u/HegemonNYC → u/KamaliKamKam]

The US has half the population of Europe and is slightly smaller in area.