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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?

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[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?

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We 100% need more trains. But in rural America, we need cars to do anything.
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  The frontier was built with trains. They did this 180 years ago. Why do we pretend that’s incompatible with rural areas in 2023?

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