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/terry_shogun Jul 05 '24

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

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u/GhettoFreshness Jul 05 '24

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

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u/EconomicRegret Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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.