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[–] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Thanks for posting this. We knew this for a long time, didn't we? How did Trucks ever win out in long range land-based transport?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

NAZIs, I guess?

(No, seriously: Nazi Germany invented Autobahns to help blitzkrieg tactics, then Eisenhower saw the strategic advantage and copied them to create the Interstate Highway System, then everyone else copied the US.)

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago
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