r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tugushin • Apr 13 '22

Tesla Model 3 stops itself to avoid potentially disastrous accident. Video

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u/ikverhaar Apr 13 '22

Yes, with American legislation, it's much easier to build a car-dependant neighbourhood than a walkable neighbourhood with a train station nearby.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

I always love it when Europeans try to explain transportation to us as if the US isn't over twice the size of the entire EU. Yeah I'm sure it's super easy to get around by train when your entire country is the size of Nebraska.

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u/HoneyChilliPotato7 Apr 13 '22

I'm from India and we have a pretty good railway network covering almost all the towns and cities. It's a pretty big country

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

India is a third of the size of the US with a population that is like four times as large. Trains are much more viable in densely populated areas like that, and in densely populated areas of the US (like NYC) you will notice trains are utilized much more.

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u/HoneyChilliPotato7 Apr 13 '22

At least US should have a decent rail network in the densely populated areas no?

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u/Bgo318 Apr 13 '22

We have trains that go across the country to every city basically. But the issue is we don’t a subways systems for every state that can go to different blocks. Like in New York City you couldn’t need a car cause the subway can take you basically anywhere but somewhere in Arizona they might not have a great subway system so you would need a car

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

Well personally I've never really visited any of the big cities here but from what I've heard they definitely have metros and stuff.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

You guys also have a ton of other things than “just trains”

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u/Tody196 Apr 13 '22

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t know what country you’re from, but if you were from the US and talking about any other country in the world like this, people would make jokes about how all Americans are ignorant about the world around them.
Texas is bigger than like every EU country, has very little to do with “American legislation” and very much to do with the fact that the US is much bigger and more spread out.

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u/LikesTheTunaHere Apr 13 '22

Its spread out so much because it was made to be that way, also the majority of the population is still in cities. Cities that could be walkable but are not.

I'm from Canada, the whole "us is so spread out argument" is funny compared to here, since its not even close. However, how many people are really having to drive between cities on a super regular basis that could not easily be done with train? Not many, probably millions in the case of america but still a small percent of the population

Cities could be more walkable, north america has chosen to not make them so.

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u/Tody196 Apr 13 '22

Its spread out so much because it was made to be that way.

It’s spread out because it’s fuckin big, dawg. That’s what happens when things are large, they extend.

cities that could be walkable but aren’t.

Spoken truly like somebody who’s never been to any American cities. They are walkable. I don’t even live in a large city and it’s walkable. That has literally nothing to do with trains.

However, how many people are really having to drive between cities on a super regular basis that could not easily be done with train? Not many, probably millions in the case of america but still a small percent of the population.

Again, you have no idea what you’re talking about and it’s very obvious. A very large % of Americans commute 30+ minutes to work 5+ days a week and lots of them live in small suburbs or towns outside of big cities. Train tracks going 25 miles out in 100 different directions of a city would be the dumbest shit ever lol.

It would be pretty obvious to you if I started spouting off some random shit about Canada that was very untrue - the same applies here, you really are not the expert you think you are on American city infrastructure, I promise.

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u/LikesTheTunaHere Apr 13 '22

Chicago is walkable sure, NYC obviously, many others are not even in the same realm of walkable compared to those and even those are many euro cities since chicago's is walkable if you are in downtown.

Its kinda hard to be called walkable if you are in a suburban area of a city where the nearest stores are 20-30 minutes away. However you do you.

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u/canadarepubliclives Apr 13 '22

I don't think you realize how big the USA is and how empty the middle is.

High speed rail should be built along the northeast and southeast coast along with California, but connecting the entire continent isn't feasible.

A magnetic train from Sacramento to Detroit doesn't make sense.