Driverless Cars will Make Rails Obsolete
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Driverless vehicles will be common on the road in a short time. They will have many impacts on the global transport market trends. One of the remarkable driverless vehicles impacts will be the laying aside of rail systems, because of several reasons, that is to say traffic congestions will be no more a justification for rail, rail will not be the best answer for disableds, air pollution of cars are more or less equal to air pollution of trains and the last but not least reason is that driverless cars are safer than trains.
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