@[email protected]M to Fuck [email protected]English • 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.worldmessage-square573fedilinkarrow-up12.22K
arrow-up12.06Kimage[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?lemmy.world@[email protected]M to Fuck [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square573fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoThat’s regional public transport, not local. I dare you to show me a city with diesel subway trains.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•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.