I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
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More trains =/= eradicate cars, guys. Come on. We need cars to exist too, but not in this quantity because of lack of mass transit options.
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And walkable cities, more parks, fewer parkways Actually, invest in updating the infrastructure as ode to building more structures people can't afford to live in
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I need a self driving car. ♿I won't buy one from Musk though.
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I want shared local self driving cars.
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Ok but what if we reinvented trains and took them off the rails and into the air. Like some kind of air plane?
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Exactly. Mass transit is the solution, not flashy gadgets for individual drivers. Trains move people efficiently, reduce emissions, and reconnect communities. Yet we keep investing in cars while neglecting infrastructure that actually matters.
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But the problem that Americans have with trains is that they get let off at the train station and NOT directly at the front door of their destinations. They would have to WALK - and that will not fly.
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I love trains. Really love trains. To use them effectively in America, with the long distances involved, we would need a lot more track, and not the same track that freight trains run on. High speed trains need dedicated tracks.
Trains of electric trucks on highways will happen sooner.
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You know how we keep reading about all the microplastics in our brains? How come we still get them even if we don't live near landfills or places where they gather and break down? Cars. The microplastics are from decades of wear&tear on millions of car/truck tires.
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Yes!!!
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Elon has a "better" idea. Dig tunnels. And in these tunnels don't build a railway, instead pave it and let taxi cars drive a couple of people very very slowly. Neither you or I ate smart enough to see how brilliant this idea is.
The number daily users of the London underground is 3.2 million...
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Street cars as well. KC has street cars that have WiFi and I love riding them whenever I visit to get to the local businesses.
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I like twains. 🚂
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i would love to not have to drive. i want phenomenal public transportation. instead we get mediocre public transportation bc they want people to hate it.
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I get terribly motion sick on most public transportation. Not a little motion sick. I’m talking full on vomiting/wretching/shaking. Besides, I have 7 large dogs, 1 medium/lg parrot, and 2 giant parrots. I need a large vehicle. 😉
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Light rail etc but they won't. It's 2025 and there are foreign military bases to maintain and deploy troops to foreign countries for American hegemony, at the cost of 50+billion a year globally. They dgaf. This government deserted its people decades ago.
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Not while this fool is in office!
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That train has left the station, so to speak.
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Lol my car is a mobile survival pod. No way im going anywhere without all my supplies. Public transportation is for straw house piggies.
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That's great for you, but older people are going to be given greater freedom with self driving cars. The world doesn't revolve around you. But yes, we need more mass transit as well
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You sure that's not a BUS? A Trolley? Trains are far less flexible.
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We still need self driving cars to get us to and from the station.
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It's weird how america was once a country of trains . There even a train mogul because how successful those train lines at connecting people and goods.
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This is once again an example of people not demanding something from DC,
when DC absolutely demanded trains.
Your Congresspeople all have free healthcare. You don't.
They can get to New York City or LA in a few hours. You can't.
They can pretend to do their jobs and not lose them. You can't.
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Hang on - what if elon could supply you with a self driving car that get this goes in convoy in a Boring Co tunnel with other self driving cars and stops at certain places. And you don't have to own the car. You can just hop on.
This is REVOLUTIONARY.
Never before seen.
sob
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More public transportation!!!
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Re-nationalise the goddamn trains, Britain!
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Yes yes yes!
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How lazy are we becoming that we think we need self-driving cars? I heard through the grapevine that there are many more collisions by these cars than are actually being reported. 🤷♀️ Also, someone is working on pilotless planes. 😱
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Kind of a simplistic idea.
Where I live you need a bus to catch a train.
To go to work I'd have to catch a bus, a train then an uber both ways. It'd take about 2+ hours instead of 20 minutes.
If I wanted to do shopping for 2 adults 3 kids do I drag all the shopping onto a train? Impractical.
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I would like to see park and rides near local train stops. I would take a train to different things, but getting to the train stop takes a different type of transportation.
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And tracks.
Trains run on tracks. Congestion and age prevent rail from blossoming as an alternative travel option in those major areas.
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I love trains.
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YES, PLEASE!
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We do have self-riding metro trains. D/C has an exemplary system.
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Ideally electro-magnetic ones
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Well it's too late baby Yes it's too late Though we never did Try to build them
We needed to build them decades ago, before the land that would need to be bought up became so expensive (SF to LA? Fugettaboutit). The oil and auto industries are mostly to blame.
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I would absolutely love to see more passenger rails. The thing is, we have some tracks built, but only use them for freight. If I want to ride a train, closest station is 2.5 hours away. I could literally walk from my house to a freight train yard in under an hour.
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Crabs and trains. It’s always crabs and trains.
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Yeah but you still haven’t eliminated the train driver, so it’s not cool
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Fast trains like China and Europe have
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America gave up on trains when they discovered oil in US and they backed the wrong horse. Rest of the world has great railway systems we can’t even build high speed railway in 20 years. How shameful.
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Trams and buses are welcome as well.
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I miss BART from our days living in the Bay Area.
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Like Europe!!
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It sounds great, but apparently you can't even LOOK at a train without getting stabbed in the neck by roving MS-13 gangs, so I'm just gonna sit at home, roll up in a ball, and weep quietly.
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Yes, of course we need high-speed trains. But...
False dichotomies aren't helpful.
We also need self-driving ELECTRIC cars.
We can walk & chew gum at the same time.
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And if there is anyone suggesting that the US is too big to build trains, it's worth pointing out that it used to have an extensive train system that was torn down in favor of the highways (and for the sake of car sales). youtu.be/REni8Oi1QJQ?...
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Yep. I was riding trains and airplanes since I was born.
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Good luck making the stops convenient non high density areas.
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Trains are awesome, but you really do need last mile solutions to go with them. The Dutch have a wonderful setup with bike rental at every station.
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Public Transport and walkable cities
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Absolutely. If China can build tracks across permafrost to Tibet, the US should be able to build high-speed rail links. No doubt the aircraft industry will say that jobs will be affected.
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Agreed
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Problem is, the existing tracks are in the wrong places
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Agreeing from my seat on the Amtrak
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The new next generation Acela trains will (hopefully) start service tomorrow. And I don't blame this on the government nor Amtrak, the years of delays are manufacturer Alstom's doing.
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And we already have beautiful Amtrak stations!
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Huge train construction in California is shut down! The term "California's train to nowhere" $102 billion in cost overruns projected cost of $135 billion vs original $33 billion additional $15 billion spent without any tracks laid. Taxpayers screwed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...
California High-Speed Rail - Wikipedia
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I wonder what blind or disabled people think about your post
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China and Europe are light years ahead of US all because corporate greed and corrupted polticians
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I would also like faster trains. I’d like it to be faster to take the train to Chicago than drive.
On the other hand I have no idea how accessible Amtrak is so maybe my opinion is irrelevant. Sigh.
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Why is Europe doing it but we can't?? If move people would travel abroad , they would realized that the American way is not the only way
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We are such a strange country. We favor cars, guns, junk food, opinion, not knowing things, and reality TV, but we don't favor things that are collectively good for all. I really have little in common with this country anymore.
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I dream of a day when we have a rail system like Europe's
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No thanks. Waiting for buses and trains sucks. Lived that life when I was younger.
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More, and Better
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But... it's socialism!
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Curious as to how your vision of more trains differs from the existing circumstances. Amtrak already has service between major cities, it's compellingly underutilized. Americans don't have to patience for long distance train travel.
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We have lots of trains in the UK, unfortunately they're our equivalent of US healthcare when it comes to price gouging.
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That sort of technology is decades in the future.
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American trains are expensive and provide poor service because it’s an oligopoly approved by the State.
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We need both.
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More passenger trains on their own tracks please. Not sharing tracks with freight trains, which get priority. A plane ride to my daughter's place takes 3.5 hours. An Amtrak ride to her city takes 54 hours. Fix that.
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The thing is a train is... a self-driving car!!! Read, think, stare at sby, plan, recall, the windows.. free hands and mind!!! But is it really profitable for some name-surname? No? Then...
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You're pissing up a rope to think this Murica has the capacity to achieve anything more impacting than a goddamn landfill.
Good luck!
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Utah has a decent public transit system. Was super nice for me because it was a lot cheaper to get a monthly pass (about 85 dollars) than it was to own and maintain a car
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Agreed...the problem is that cars are sold as a symbol ...like the iPhone ... you need to be communicated, correct? Why do you need a $2k Dollar phone?
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I live in SE Pennsylvania and the Republicans in our state legislature don’t want to fund the existing services that SEPTA provides.
The lack of funding will resort in more traffic on our roads and unnecessary congestion.
Is SEPTA perfect? No, but neglecting to fund it hurts regular people.
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Yes!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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But they are afraid of the common people, and rightly so. They need to ride alone. And they will die alone.
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The irony here is that, because they run on tracks, they could be self driving 100x easier than a car ever could
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I was in Japan in the summer of 2024 and they were celebrating 50 years of bullet trains. I think about that a lot.
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For Elon Musk
*Electric trucks
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Perhaps walk. Or bike. Burn the fat stores instead of burning fuels. Americans need more exercise.
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Been saying this for years: if you hate driving so much that you need a self-driving car, maybe consider a bus or a train?
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Some people do need a self-driving car. Mostly the least safe drivers-the oldest and the youngest. Older drivers are far less mobile and also less reliable drivers. Give them all self-driving cars. The youngest drivers would benefit from cars that are smart enough to keep them from harm.
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Will take a few days in France at the end of the month. High Speed Train from London to Paris (2.5hours) then local trains (some just fast) down through France stopping on the way. Then High Speed Trains back all the way to London. What's not to like 😂
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It’s not just trains. We also need increased high-speed rail capacity and more routes to more places. I should be able to get on a train within a reasonable distance from my home and arrive at pretty much any destination in the country without having too many transfers.
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🤣 no really though
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All of the train tracks in America are owned by 4 different corporations. The problem is much deeper than needing more trains.
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Here's the problem. In America, more trains won't lower the price. They will increase the price because it's a more effective form of transportation. Taxis are ridiculously priced after you get off the train.
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Too bad cult regime is focused on building concentration camps and a masked tax payer funded gestopo.
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By god you are right! Eureka
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EXCELLENT 💯 (Bluesky has the same disgusting emojis just like Insta)
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Okay, but only do this after y'all get rid of ICE.
Stares at WW2 nazi invaded Poland
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Amen! Let’s reduce traffic on our Dangerous, Congested, filthy highways! We need to bring America into the 20th century.
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Self-driving cars would be fine too - a complementary technology to bridge that outer legs of the journey, to and from the train station.
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You need to get rid of Trump first, following his return to office his administration has canceled billions of dollars in federal funding for California's high-speed rail project, with the project already underway and large portions of it almost completed.
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RIGHT ON!
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High speed pls. Canada too.
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I don’t need a self driving car. I know how to drive, thank you. I will trust self-driving cars when they don’t share the roads with human drivers.
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Good public transit in general. Trains solve on part of the transportation problem, but we need good subway service in dense cities, good bus service everywhere, good bicycling infrastructure, …. Lots of Europe does this right.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJny...
We're trying...
But only in ways that would be utterly and completely useless.
Tech Bros Invented Trains (Again...)
YouTube video by Adam Something
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Like the one in Mejifornia?
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there's nothing wrong with self-driving cars; focus on the actual problems: nazis making vast fortunes by selling self-driving cars, unregulated industries making self-driving cars and destroying the environment, buggy self-driving cars causing accidents because... again, unregulated... also nazis..
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Amen to that!
Trains are wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=svao...
The Sad and Awful Way We Destroyed the World's Greatest Passenger Rail
YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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While I agree with this for “in between major areas”, I do think self driving cars are exciting as a solution for the last mile problem.
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With all the billions us taxpayers have given to Amtrak it’s ridiculous that so few are able to take a train places. Eg, I can ride Fl to NY in a day but to go Fl to TX takes about 4 days and costs a fortune.
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After riding trains in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and China, I am a true believer in train as a main mean of transportation of passengers.
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Trains, intercity buses, and more bicycles!!! Save gas, Ride a Bike!!! LOL
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Trashing our interurbans instead of modernizing them was one of Americas biggest mistakes of the 20th Century.
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Only if they find a better safety device than a HORN
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but think about the poor highway engineers! if they can't build one more lane, how are they gonna fix traffic??
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For the hours I work and the days of the week that I work, I need a car to get from my home to my place of employment. I can see building more trains when there are potential riders clamoring for them not just environmentalists.
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no one will have a car unless ultra wealthy, insurance rates will make that happen. very few parked cars, just what their are will be driving continuously based on algos. Think uber, zero ownership
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I don't think self driving vehicles should ever hit the streets. It's bad enough people drive drunk .we don't need robots driving around. And I'd love to go on an Amtrak train one day I've never been on one
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Both, I think. Bedroom community commuters and crosstown / intervity travellers can benefit from trains. But places also need self-driving cars with pairs of seats that face each other: point to point, on demand via municipal app, and pulled over when unused. Trains won't solve the traffic.
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This wonderful government just cut all the funding for the high-speed rail in California. So don’t count on trains under this corrupt administration. It’s cars, baby cars and more gas gas gas.
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What if we just put them on a track that they could follow easily oh wait trains again
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How about cars without timed electronics that shut them down in 8 or 9 years.
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Yeah, electric trains, not diesel
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More trains in US means more fossil fuel used. Most of US trains dont run on electricity, a XX century thing.
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Bus
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I’m for mandatory self driving cars, trains are just to expensive. All self driving networks will speed up traffic and safety. Plus you can put your car out for hire to help pay for itself.
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Musk shut down a speed train planned in CA because he didn't want the competition for his Robotaxi. He's the one aiming for monopolies.
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PLEASE
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today I was stuck behind a Tesla driver who appeared to be using his free time to organize a giant CD binder
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Trains city to city but buses within the city. Buses are flexible. Our city put in a street car. Millions of dollars. Can’t run in snow. Yeah, it’s nice, but only has one route. Millions of dollars. Small businesses went out of business as they worked on the route.
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High speed ones please! I would like to see them run cross country and replace airports for national travel.
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Around where I live (Portland) there is inexpensive light rail system for moving people around the greater Portland area. Very few use it. High crime and drug use keep everyone off. The problem with mass transit is other people.
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To the passengers, they are self driving too!
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Yes. High speed ones like in Japan. But built in China.
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I remember going to Orlando for a family holiday and we wanted to try a different bar and not wanting to drink and drive I asked Larry behind the hotel bar "is there more entertainment nearby that we can walk to"? He looked at me and said "nobody walks in America".
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Budling trains has it's environmental, personal & economic cost. But it is a safer environmental option. Just don't slaughter the buffalo this time & don't drive any more Native Americans off their lands.
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good trains are great , you get on, sit back , relax with a book , or get out your laptop and work or just watch the world flying by at over 100mph out the window
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Sounds like public transportation in form of buses too
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I feel this. Everything I think up for a better transportation anything... it is just a train, specialized generally, but a train.
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What if a train of self-driving cars
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Well, specifically build train tracks that you don't have to share with trains that carry cheap Chinese plastic goods we don't need.
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lets get totally wacky and make those trains high speed! imagine that, we would only be like the 40th country to ever do it!
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Agree. It will never happen.
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It's the dammed culture of the car and the constantly promoted extreme individualism that keeps us from having well designed cities and efficient mass transportation.
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Urban areas should absolutely.
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This is actually a trolley problem
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Republicans - and the oil companies that bought them- loathe mass transit.
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… and the roads to take them 😳
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Let's check in with California and see how thats working
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You need dibs on a self-driving car to take you to the grocery store regularly if you can't drive.
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Yes agree👍
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I'd settle for light rail and buses that are efficient and accessible.
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They did. When they needed them to kill all the natives and buffaloes. Now they target others.
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What we need is remote work.
Anybody that took the bus (maybe trains too, idk) in the summer knows how bad it is.
It's infernally hot and unbreathable.
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Self driving cars could pick you up from home and drop you off at the train station and pick you up from the train and drop you off at your destination.
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And some trains can be self driving, and have been safely doing so for years.
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I want more trains in my country too :(
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Yep! And $25k to 1st time Homeowners does NOTHING to solve their housing affordability crisis, of the cost of childcare, or healthcare, or minimum wage… Democrats have their OWN Billionaires to answer to. Jsut because they “support” something, doesn’t mean shit will b done about it
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High-speed trains would create an employment and economic opportunity.
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Yup. Our lack of modern train technology is infuriating. Light rail, high speed rail. Nope, not in merka.
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We were… until the Dump Regime came into power…
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Unfortunately, thanks to a century of car-centric city planning, there's huge numbers of people whose trips are rural and suburban. Combine with absolutely no capability to actually change or build anything meaningful in modern USA.
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Also don’t need a colony on mars to escape to when earth becomes inhabitable for humans.
I need the brain power and resources that would be required to make mars inhabitable to instead be directed toward keeping earth inhabitable
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🎯💯!
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Trump cancelled funding for 4 highspeed rail projects in California. He doesn't care if we don't have a planet to live on once he's dead
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Yes please!
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Heck - in Europe most of our buses are now electric. It’s really not so difficult to build eco friendly mass transportation. And for anyone saying Europe is more densely populated. Sweden is not and we have a very robust train and bus network across the entire country. Including for rural folks.
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I#d prefer busses there too, but usually they get rid of buss stuff because "there isnt enough demand"
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there is a case for self driving cars but only in the most underserved, rural areas with tricky terrain but that isn't where they will end up, given public financing values as practiced today
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Yes!!!! 🙌
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I think Biden had the same idea…
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Again, the U.S. doesn't have anywhere near the population density to make widespread rail cost effective
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Oh?
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I agree. When I lived in NYC, I loved the subway. I could read, or do other things. Driving steals your time from other things you could be doing.
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Took one from Chicago to Denver and it was pretty great, aside from being too expensive and pretty slow, both of which would improve with investment.
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Do it! But, don't install them adjacent to major intersections. We have a nightmare on our hands at Lamar and Airport here in Austin. Nobody rides the damn thing, and it halts traffic in this very busy city 12 times a day during work hours. Pathetic.
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I think this is not possible any longer with land values in USA so high in major metro areas and imminent domain laws that are very limited. Best option now is going to build out bussing and make routes much more available.
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I need more rail transport so I can buy a bunch of marketplace shitboxes that barely run instead of reliable modern vehicles
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An insane number. We're a HUGE country. Bullet trains everywhere. There's a burst of manufacturing I'd like to see
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Most of the taxes paid by American people goes to İsrail to continue murdering babies, so no money to built train lines
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Also, I hear Elon is working on a thing he’s calling a “bus.”
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Preferably not taking over bison migration trails, this time!
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Huh, you are the most antisocial society after Qatari and the Dubai's people. Good luck convincing Americans to invest into trains.
