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Originally Posted by Hersbird
That's why you physically connect the cars and then run them at full speed limit in the left or middle lanes. They can break off or add more but other cars maneuver around them. 20 cars and a tug would be about 360 feet which would be similar to 2 or 3 semis traveling together.
Getting twice the range on an electric car is good, but using none of it for a little bit of diesel is even better.
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Still not sold on the connection part, but having them travel fast in the left lane seems like an easier problem to solve than my dumb idea. Not contending with trucks for on/off ramp exchanges would reduce a lot of accidents and smooth the merging process.
It wouldn't matter that the trucks are traveling fast from an efficiency perspective because the aero benefits would largely offset that, plus having faster turnaround is efficient and would reduce shipping costs.