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Ok_Kale_2509 t1_ixh16ok wrote

Reply to comment by miner_sd in Your Robotaxi Is Almost Here by Rear-gunner

"Tell me you live in a super urban area without telling me you live in a super urban area."

The issue is trains only work in dense areas. Even in a city like Indianapolis it wouldn't work very well. Downtown Indianapolis only takes about 10 minutes. The places that the busses go can be 10 miles apart. They have dozens of lines and each has dozens of stops. Even with this there are still tons of complaints that it doesn't cover enough. Making a train system for public transport here is just not possible.

I 100% agree we should use trains in cities that it will work. The issue is it won't work in thousands of others.

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miner_sd t1_ixign69 wrote

The US used to have such a large system of trolleys and interurbans that you could get from the east coast to the midwest using those alone, and you could find trolleys in cities as small as 30,000 people

We don't have any of that anymore

It's gone because car companies bought up all the infrastructure and ripped it up. Good public transit is possible, people just aren't trying

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svick t1_ixh9fde wrote

Which is why the US obsession with suburbia needs to end.

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