stopthatgirl7Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it
Detroit is now home to the country's first chunk of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether it's parked or moving....
SquishyPandaDevAmericans will literally do anything to not build trains
ColeSlothThere’s public transport in large and dense cities. It doesn’t work to move around the country very well. These people that think something that works in a country that’s smaller than an individual state in the US should work fine are “special”.
Japan is the size of the entire east coast and has high speed interconnected rail.
There’s only about 800 cities to connect in all of Japan.
There’s about 19,000 in the US.
You prove my point. Japan is small and easy to get everywhere by rail. The US is not.
Yeah, area wise Japan is about 60% the size of Texas. With Japan having more than twice the GDP. Seems pretty straight forward why infrastructure should be better there. Japan has 4x the populous as well. Makes a lot more motivation to focus on public transport.