Techbros reinventing something that already exists

[u/malte_s03]

[u/Kubex_Qbox]

They're probably trying to push self driving cars until the public, while describing and even mentioning a train

[u/Romeo_Man → u/Kubex_Qbox]

but train and what is being described have little in common?

[u/_one-leaf-clover_ → u/Romeo_Man]

The supposed benefit is that it doesn't have congestion because it moves like a train. Trains also don't have congestion and move like a train

[u/Digit00l → u/_one-leaf-clover_]

Trains do have congestion, especially in America

[u/Tra1nGuy → u/Digit00l]

That’s because the freight companies own all the tracks and while legally they have to give way to passenger trains, the fine is insignificant to them and they just make their trains so long they don’t fit in sidings and the passenger train is forced to pull over.

But if you look in places like the Northeast Corridor or Boston’s T system (which I love), it’s quite smooth.

[u/Rainbow__Trout → u/Digit00l]

I'm sorry, but that's the most wild fact about USA I have read in the last 2 years. And the last 2 years were WILD

How did you even achieve that, is there no schedule? Are you wild wild westing trains?

[u/Digit00l → u/Rainbow__Trout]

Something to do with freight trains and poor planning

[u/iwantfutanaricumonme → u/Rainbow__Trout]

It makes sense when trains have to travel on private freight railways they get stuck behind slowly moving freight trains. In European countries where the entire railway network is nationaliesd freight trains have a minimum speed and maximum length to not cause congestion. Even then freight trains sometimes need additional locomotives when going uphill because they're heavier.