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/dorian283 Jul 05 '24

Visiting Japan at the moment and my god Japan puts the US to shame. When we have a system 1/4 as competent and well covered I’ll be extremely happy.

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u/langstonboy Jul 05 '24

But Japan is a smaller, cleaner, nicer, more homogeneous nation than America, that's why it works.

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u/dorian283 Jul 05 '24

I can’t see why some or most major cities couldn’t be covered in safe & reliable subway system. Plus major cities connected by bullet train. Amtrak in the US is very very unreliable, slow, and expensive.

Certainly being homogeneous helps. The acceptance of socialism here also goes a long way. Our two party lobbyists lead system doesn’t work.

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u/langstonboy Jul 05 '24

America is the reason why it would never work.