In the first video the author makes a lot of assumption around operating these things in the existing railways without changing how they are managed. It does not consider the cost savings and increased flexibility in having cars arrange themselves and route autonomously to their destinations.
Industrial warehousing/logistic robots are becoming very widespread and significantly changes the workflow and reduces human intervention.
You can't make a fair comparison by treating autonomous robots as if they were regular train cars.
The second video is simply mocking the boisterous style and claims of the ads.
I think they don't consider that because it's a rail system. Re-arranging cars on route would require many junctions, and would probably slow down the whole system when they separate. It's also a different problem that they are solving with warehouse robots - goods need to be transported individually to destinations. Trains solve mass transport. And besides - autonomous rail robots would still be bound to a rail, and thus can't really plan any fancy avoidance or path finding that a warehouse robot could.
> In the first video the author makes a lot of assumption around operating these things in the existing railways without changing how they are managed. It does not consider the cost savings and increased flexibility in having cars arrange themselves and route autonomously to their destinations.
Are they selling the bogie cars, or are they selling new rail infrastructure? If it's just the former then they have to work with the existing infrastructure, including manually switched tracks
> a lot of assumption around operating these things in the existing railways without changing how they are managed. It does not consider the cost savings and increased flexibility in having cars arrange themselves and route autonomously to their destinations.
Assumptions that are deeply rooted in reality. Rail is extremely cheap because it offers a fixed set of interconnection points with other modes of transportation and has extremely rigid standards that ensure at every step nobody has to stop and think about how to handle something.
This is like Tesla announcing the Cybertruck will be 25 feet wide and insisting that all roads nationwide be updated so they will work.
