On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:21:02 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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Driverless cars will never match the speed of a train between city
centres.

Nor can they match the efficiency per ton/mile's worth of freight and
passenger transport energy costs of an electrified railway (probably not
even in the case of diesel traction based rail transport).

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Johnny B Good