Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldM to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-square552fedilinkarrow-up12.19Karrow-down1151
arrow-up12.04Karrow-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.worldM to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square552fedilink
minus-squareWimpyWoodchuck@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThat’s regional public transport, not local. I dare you to show me a city with diesel subway trains.
minus-squareThadrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat is as local as it gets around here. We don’t have subways or street cars, it’s either busses (diesel) or train (motor coach actually) for even single digit km distances. But yeah, it is real rail, not some separate local network.
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That’s regional public transport, not local. I dare you to show me a city with diesel subway trains.
That is as local as it gets around here. We don’t have subways or street cars, it’s either busses (diesel) or train (motor coach actually) for even single digit km distances.
But yeah, it is real rail, not some separate local network.