a comrade who codes
I went to Vail recently, and I had to take a shuttle from Denver. I was shocked when I got up there and there was all sorts of tracks from old mining operations. Why wouldn’t they repurpose those for new trains? The tracks are already there that’s half the battle
I’m perhaps exaggerating, but yeah cars have some use cases. They are just aggressively overprescribed as the tool for everything rather than only as needed
Cars: bad for the planet, bad for physical health, bad for mental health, bad for urban planning. What are they useful for again?
Being more environmentally friendly and cheaper? Where is he pulling that from?
Inventing a new technology from more or less scratch will be way more expensive. And I feel like they’d be comparable environmentally if they are both electric