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Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks (newatlas.com)
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[โ€“] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly how it'll do this is yet to be nailed down, but individual pallets will carry up to a ton of small cargo items, and they'll move without human interference from one end to the other.

Someone's been playing Factorio.

[โ€“] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, just gotta use some automatic inserters and splitters.