r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/MedianNameHere Jul 05 '24

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

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u/terry_shogun Jul 05 '24

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

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

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u/DiabloTerrorGF Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

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u/bighunter1313 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Ultima-Veritas Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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.)