"Wow. That's so obvious in retrospect. I wonder why I haven't considered it before, nor why I haven't read of it before either."
Get ready to have your mind blown because the next leap in this line of logic is to physically fix "tracks" to the road and run the cars on these "rails" - possibly on a schedule.
It's a future star-trek world we in the United States can only dream of ...
Trains work incredibly well, but they don't solve the last mile problem. Hi-rail trucks are pretty common in railway maintenance. There is probably some sort of steam-punk past that could have happened where we're all driving hi-rail cars on almost all highways, and just using cars for the few last mile trips.
Get ready to have your mind blown because the next leap in this line of logic is to physically fix "tracks" to the road and run the cars on these "rails" - possibly on a schedule.
It's a future star-trek world we in the United States can only dream of ...