Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldM to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square472fedilinkarrow-up1752arrow-down157
arrow-up1695arrow-down1image[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?lemmy.worldFried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldM to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square472fedilink
minus-squarePixlbabble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoBig Auto has been destroying any idea of high speed rails for decades. Our trains are complete trash because of car lobbyists.
minus-squareJon Von Basslake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoMuskrat is one of the biggest ones to blame.
minus-squareSaneless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAnd they expand the roads and freeways to have rails literally no place to go
minus-squarezeppo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoDenver has decent rail, but I have to walk/bike across this insane hellscape of cars trying to kill me for 1 1/2 miles to get to the station
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Big Auto has been destroying any idea of high speed rails for decades. Our trains are complete trash because of car lobbyists.
Muskrat is one of the biggest ones to blame.
And they expand the roads and freeways to have rails literally no place to go
Denver has decent rail, but I have to walk/bike across this insane hellscape of cars trying to kill me for 1 1/2 miles to get to the station