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Anonymous Thu 21 Dec 2023 21:55:00 No.1968987 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1968990 >>1969011 >>1969035 >>1969063 >>1969072 >>1969076

Why are American investors obsessed with reinventing the train over and over again?
Why not just build and innovate trains?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Dec 2023 21:55:48 No.1968988 Report

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1. He's south african
2. Because he's a megalomaniac with NPD

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Dec 2023 21:59:30 No.1968990 Report

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>>1968987
Why are you posting all of these threads?
Why didn't you check the catalog for a thread about this subject first?
>>1958732
>>1958732
>>1958732

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 00:16:58 No.1969011 Report

Quoted By: >>1969012 >>1969077 >>1969078

>>1968987
We have trains. They are inefficient and uneconimical for a variety of reasons. More trains doesn't solve efficiency.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 00:18:50 No.1969012 Report

Quoted By: >>1969020

>>1969011
>They are inefficient and uneconimical for a variety of reasons
May I see it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 00:47:14 No.1969020 Report

Quoted By: >>1969064 >>1969077 >>1969078

>>1969012
Insufficient ridership density for the operating costs of useful levels of service.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 03:06:12 No.1969035 Report

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>>1968987
Because then you'd have to actually build the trains to go where people live, work, and shop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 07:30:38 No.1969063 Report

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>>1968987
nimby commies strike again

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 07:39:20 No.1969064 Report

Quoted By: >>1969074

>>1969020
that same problem quite literally applies to the method shown in op's picture

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 10:30:08 No.1969072 Report

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>>1968987
Because it's embarrassing to build something that countries like Morocco or Thailand already have when you're the richest country in the world. They have to one up it somehow

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 11:50:16 No.1969074 Report

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>>1969064
Yeah and it failed remember?
The question is about why investors are interested in alternatives. Sometimes you don't really know until you try and gain real world experience, something /n/ doesn't understand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 12:03:35 No.1969076 Report

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>>1968987
1) establishment opposition to public transportation
2) ideological opposed to public transportation
3) pathological opposition to public transportation, the rich are weird and possess many strange obsessions and anxieties - Musk has said he is afraid a fellow passenger would try to kill him
4) by developing a propriarty technology they would stand to make vast sums of money building infrastructure they own the patent to

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 12:04:36 No.1969077 Report

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>>1969011
>they are efficient and economical
fix'd
>>1969020
where?
what service?
this

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 12:06:45 No.1969078 Report

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>>1969011
>they are efficient and economical
fix'd
>>1969020
where?
what service?
this cant be a blanket condemnation of _all_ public transportation cannot? thats just not serious

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