What Austin Vernon thinks about infrastructure

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Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts about how physical industries actually work — chemical plants, geothermal drilling, shipyards, thermal storage and the economics of low-volume manufacturing — at austinvernon.site.

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   Our readingMost of what a car costs is the weight and structure needed to survive human driving error, not the transport it delivers.

   Their wordsHumans being awful drivers leads to a massive increase in vehicle costs and weight, makes cars more dangerous to people outside of them, and imposes significant costs on infrastructure like roads.

   ↗Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10xaustinvernon.site 1st of 3 in this piece