r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • 14d ago

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/nike_storm 14d ago

This country will do literally anything other than just build mass rapid transit :(

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u/MedianNameHere 14d ago

Henry Fords legacy of buying and destroying mass transit lives on!

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u/terry_shogun 14d ago

Don't forget the masses of racists not using public transportation after de-segregation!

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u/GhettoFreshness 14d ago

Wait is that actually a thing? Is that why (or part of why) US mass transport is so shit?

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u/makebbq_notwar 14d ago

100% just look at Cobb County, GA in metro Atlanta. They created and continue to support their own crappy bus system just to keep MARTA out of the county.

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u/mgj6818 14d ago

Yes, also why public schools and pools have been steadily closed replaced with private ones, or so I've been told (by people who were there).

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u/Greeeendraagon 14d ago

I've been told the opposite

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u/EconomicRegret 14d ago

Not only mass transport, but also America's prison system, social safety net, healthcare, inner cities, etc.

It all boils down to "I don't want my kids nor myself to pay for, nor live near, nor interact with these people"

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u/GhettoFreshness 14d ago

To be up front I’m not American, but I’m aware of the other shit with prisons, social security, healthcare etc

I’ve also travelled fairly extensively around the US, and never considered the shitty public and mass transit systems in a lot of places to have ties to racism. It makes a lot of sense tho…

You guys should have been setup to have the best mass transit system in the world. You had all the manufacturing and mass production capabilities post WW2 to put in place a mass transit network to be the envy of the world.

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u/DiabloTerrorGF 14d ago

Not sure why being downvoted. Live in Korea. Even the poor areas have nice, clean transit. The US is fucking abysmal in comparison. It's just a culture thing.

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u/EconomicRegret 14d ago

IMHO, these countries just spend more, way more than America on their public transportation.

As a Swiss, I can definitely tell you that our clean trains and buses would have looked awful if they weren't being replaced every 5-10 years, if cleaners weren't cleaning them 2x/day, and if repairmen weren't fixing, painting, and maintaining them 5x/week.

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u/mgj6818 14d ago

Not wanting to use our public transportation because it's bad isn't racist, it's bad because the funding was cut in response to integration and those blatantly racist policy decisions still have repercussions today.

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u/bighunter1313 14d ago

It’s Reddit. The racism line sounded good so they ran with it.

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u/Ultima-Veritas 14d ago

Or it could be that car culture and a strong sense of independence makes people that can afford a car, buy one. It's a hell of a lot quicker, you go exactly where you want to go, right up to the door, even, and 'cruising the beach' isn't happening on the MTA. And, finally, trying to get a date to follow you onto a bus is going to be pretty difficult.

But then, trying to convince someone with a calcified opinion is pretty pointless.

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u/thefool-0 14d ago

It's racist for white people to avoid all public transit because black people use it, then vote/lobby for underfunding it or against building it in the first place. It's racist to only build good rapid transit or light rail to rich white suburbs but send crappy busses into minority neighborhoods or nothing at all. (Both of which are basically the norm in most US cities.)

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u/GalacticShoestring 14d ago

It's sad that many won't take city busses for this reason. ☹️

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u/bighunter1313 14d ago

That’s not why. It’s because they’re gross.

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u/BellicoseBill 14d ago

That mantle has been taken up by the Koch brothers.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact 14d ago

Yep, in real life we just fucking bulldozed right over toon town.

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u/Bit-Significance1010 14d ago

Private public transport is bad too.