I wonder if it’ll have turrets to fend off the Biters.
Why use the term ‘conveyor belt’? No conveyor. No belts. Automated cargo containers.
That’s an interesting idea, but what is the advantage of not using rails?
My guess is it must be at capacity and there’s no space to build a parallel lane next to the tracks. This is conveyor belt so it is constantly moving in both directions with pellets being dropped back and forth. Of course rail industry has been trying to get to the “conveyor belt” idea for sometime but to have one that’s constantly moving both directions isn’t executable.
It says it can fit three cargo pods abreast, so I don’t think that’s the issue.
“The roads must roll!”
Someone in Japan is a Heinlein fan.
Build a god damn train
First friggin’ paragraph…
Six decades after the bullet train first whisked passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, authorities in Japan are planning to do the same for cargo, with the construction of a “conveyor belt road”.
The bullet train is wholly irrelevant here. It does not transport cargo now, does it? Build a fucking freight train line. Every time some tech bro suggests a solution involving pods, a civil engineer has a stroke
Ah - you are correct - they don’t use those lines for freight (I thought they may). Still - Japan has some of the best train networks in the world.
I expect this idea to die. People act like because a thing was suggested or being looked into that it will automatically be done. “Solar Frickin’ Roadways” never went anywhere an this sounds unlikely to as well.
I like how you think you know better than Japan after skimming a simple article lol
