Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-square568linkfedilinkarrow-up12.26Karrow-down1157
arrow-up12.11Karrow-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 · 3 years agomessage-square568linkfedilink
minus-squareHedonismB0t@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 years agoI would love to have trains and not need a car. Unfortunately that’s still a decade away here in California.
minus-squarePandantic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 years agoAnd who knows how long in the Midwest. I can’t even take a train from Des Moines to St Louis - I have to go to Chicago by bus first!
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I would love to have trains and not need a car. Unfortunately that’s still a decade away here in California.
And who knows how long in the Midwest. I can’t even take a train from Des Moines to St Louis - I have to go to Chicago by bus first!