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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)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (12 children)

That's because your country has a shitty rail network.

Before there were roads everywhere the car were not as practical.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No.. I trains are great to comment A and B. But If you don't live in A or B, the they are not great.. The train network is fair where I live and covers a lot of the country. But still not everyone can use them. The majority of people living in cities can though. It will never cover the needs of all

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    In my country, 30 years ago, there was a train station every two villages.

    French government built a crazy train network in the first half of the 20th century because it was the backbone of war logistics, and it allowed people to move. Cars and Europe made both these needs obsolete, so the rail network was abandoned.

    You don't need to go more than 2km to find a train station in my country, it's just that most are abandoned now.

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  • [+] -9 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    A car doesn't need a road that's the thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Yes it does. Even a dirt road is still a road. Debris free and compacted. You want to prove me wrong, try driving your car on farmland or through forest and see how far you get.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Oh, I did just that for many years while living in a countryside of a small country in Eastern Europe. Does that look like bloody road to you? Debree free and compacted?

    Trust me, you don't need roads for cars, any wide trail suitable for walking or horse riding will do. And there are more trails like that in the world than all the paved roads and railroads combined.

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