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have you factored in the cost of human labor in your judgement? I mean swiss-level salaries. Thats 4k+ usd / month for retail workers. Thats what makes autonomous infrastructure cheaper in the long run than having anyone loading anything on an already overcrowded train net.

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The issue isn’t how automated it is— it’s easy to automate trains and automatically load pallets. Making each car responsible for autonomous navigation in two dimensions and self-loading becomes a much more complicated engineering problem.

More like 7-8k/month if you count true employer's expenses on average employee for persons operating & maintaining complex machineries/connected IT systems.

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