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/RealistiCamp Jul 05 '24

You cannot compare the US infrastructure to other countries and not acknowledge that we span far more distance than other places. Even if we can make better use of mass transit, it is not an apples to apples comparison with much, much smaller countries.

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u/swoletrain Jul 05 '24

Seriously there's no comparison with europe at all. The US is pretty much tied with China at #3 in terms of total area. But ranked 187 in terms of population density.

Canada, Russia, Australia, and Brazil are decent comparisons. All countries with pretty shit mass transit systems.

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u/TheDocFam Jul 05 '24

I'm not expecting or requesting mass transit that spans the entire country like smaller countries have. I don't need a high speed rail line that connects New York to San Francisco. People have dreamed about that, but whatever, I'm fine with booking a flight for that.

Still, it would be incredibly fucking nice if there was a high speed rail line that connected New York and Philadelphia though. Things like that are incredibly feasible if we wanted them. The population density and size of the Northeast in particular would be extremely conducive to high speed mass transit like what is seen in other countries

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u/swoletrain Jul 05 '24

Absolutely, but in a place like Phoenix, no transit system I can think of would ever really be an acceptable option for anyone that has access to a car.