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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? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s not remotely easier. Trains carriages are easy to build, but the infrastructure is not. You have to move and extend roads, demolish buildings, lay the rails, build bridges, if you go underground there will be lots of digging and engineering work to protect nearby buildings, and don’t forget about maintenance. It is only profitable when the population is high enough and people have the need to travel to set places en mass. Otherwise it is just fantasy. If you live your whole live around any city Center, I can understand that you are not going to drive . But plenty of people lived in a tiny town of population under 10000people .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Please explain to me: how is it possible to build a new highway through Berlin but so damn hard to build a railway through rural area?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Simple - Tracks vs Road ratio.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Because trains are massively inconvenient to anyone that isn't living in AND traveling to the most dense of urban areas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Tautological. The proposal is to stop designing communities to make public transit massively inconvenient to them.