• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Because you have to pay a good chunk of a year’s salary for one, store it around your house somewhere, and then when you finally do get to use it, there are a million other people with the same idea and you have to compete just for space in which to use it.

    And that’s before you get to all the maintenance the government has to spend on the paths (and make you pay tax for all that). Oh, and it’s incredibly dangerous, so dangerous that it’s one of the leading causes of death in the US.

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      2 hours ago

      We are talking about an equivalent ‘pod/train car’, not a car but I’ll bite anyway

      Have you ever been on a train? It sucks, a bus 10000% more, buses fuckin suck so much, I’m sorry for you to hear this in the echo chamber which features ‘fuck cars’.

      Like I said, trains and buses have 2 big negatives:

      limited availability and is extremely restrictive in where it can go

      Trains especially so, my local train would be a 20-30 minute walk away and it goes far south and to the city, if i don’t want to go to either of those I’m in for a 5 hour marathon of a trip at best

      But we should invest more in trains you might be saying, and again the question goes back to, why would a train be better than a pod/car that can roll around on train tracks

      This whole thread took the original meaning and warped it into a circle jerk about trains which is not what the OP was saying