Autonomous Trucks
However, these hydrogen trains have turned out to be a disaster, plagued with horrible reliability problems, massive cost overruns, and half of the promised range on a full tank of hydrogen. Whether for light rail trains, high-speed rail or heavy freight trains, electric rail is the most energy efficient and greenest way of powered transportation over land. In California, our decision makers remain quite ignorant about how rail electrification works and thus easy prey for gas industry lobbyists pushing the false solution of hydrogen rail. To achieve clean transportation utopia by 2043, Southern California needs to build extensive overhead catenary electric rail now, and not wait around for questionable technologies to improve. A truly transformative future would involve electric trains transporting goods as much as possible, instead of merely converting trucks to a different fuel source.