Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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-square470fedilinkarrow-up1699arrow-down154
arrow-up1645arrow-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.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square470fedilink
minus-squarePixlbabble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·2 years 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-up9·2 years agoMuskrat is one of the biggest ones to blame.
minus-squareSaneless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoAnd they expand the roads and freeways to have rails literally no place to go
minus-squarezeppo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years 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