>>1412647>>1412647>well the obvious answer would be the freedom that a combustion engine and a national road system allows.Versus the freedom to do whatever I want, read or sleep or whatever, when I'm slogging across country, instead of having to drive?
Or the freedom of the time a high speed rail system would save?
Or the freedom of not dying in a car crash?
>the interstate of course also facilitates truckingWhich is profoundly inefficient in terms of energy/ecology, human labor, and space.
>which services rural places that building rail to would be prohibitive otherwise.1) Of course last mile type stuff you'll need less mass transportation, but interstates aren't really about that.
2) Most of those rural places probably shouldn't exist, t b h. And most of the places you're talking about aren't even properly, ahh-wilderness-solitude rural, they're suburbs that didn't exist before mass automobiles and interstates, because they were too ridiculously impractical before that.
