• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No. Only the promise of a single-person direct-to-destination fee-for-service that ends up being a giant scam.

    We will never build mass transit in this country. You can’t make us.

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      1 year ago

      Where America is going to come unstuck is with the electric car.

      Either you guys are going to have to build up more electrical infrastructure which you don’t want to do, or you’re going to have to develop public transit options, would you also don’t seem to want to do.

      Then the GOP will somehow try and turn it into a political issue (because they are lunatics) and nothing will get done, and then no one will be able to go anywhere because they will be stuck living in a country that is designed for a mode of transit that no longer exists, and no one has bothered to update it in any way. And then your kids are going to overthrow the government because they won’t be able to understand why everyone in Europe can go wherever they want.

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        1 year ago

        A few major metro areas with big finance and tech sectors will get a bunch of pilot programs that cost way too much and never get fully implemented.

        Then we’ll get told that the tech is too expensive and we can’t do it.

        Meanwhile, China will be building a BRI that moves people at 600 mph from Beijing to Rabat.