The craze for self-driving cars, especially if the current machine trend is anything to go by. Two issues with it I can’t help but understand is that driving needs a human factor and that if the freedom of being in the driver seat wasn’t an issue, we’d be significantly closer to desiring a system of long distance personal rails instead of cars. I’m all for metasystemic road reform.
Building that amount of steel infrastructure really isn’t as easy as you trainbrain idealists seem to think, we really shouldn’t destroy the planets climate just to make a huge grid of expensive to maintain tracks when there are far better options - such as fleet managed self driving cars.
If course trains are great for medium length journeys on high volume routes, commuting for example but they’re not a one size fits all solution
Both options are pretty destructive to the environment (though I was thinking more monorail-esque than trains), but roads and cars I would think do more negatives, from the road construction to the CO2 to the car accidents. And it might not even be rails that are the best option, I just know our traffic system is horrendous.
The craze for self-driving cars, especially if the current machine trend is anything to go by. Two issues with it I can’t help but understand is that driving needs a human factor and that if the freedom of being in the driver seat wasn’t an issue, we’d be significantly closer to desiring a system of long distance personal rails instead of cars. I’m all for metasystemic road reform.
Building that amount of steel infrastructure really isn’t as easy as you trainbrain idealists seem to think, we really shouldn’t destroy the planets climate just to make a huge grid of expensive to maintain tracks when there are far better options - such as fleet managed self driving cars.
If course trains are great for medium length journeys on high volume routes, commuting for example but they’re not a one size fits all solution
Both options are pretty destructive to the environment (though I was thinking more monorail-esque than trains), but roads and cars I would think do more negatives, from the road construction to the CO2 to the car accidents. And it might not even be rails that are the best option, I just know our traffic system is horrendous.