Would love to know what it makes of ox carts.
Of course not. Musk and the airline cartel don't like trains, so we've been told they are slow, uncomfortable, expensive, and unreliable.
You know, just like cars and airlines, except those things make money for Musk and the cartel.
It does always amaze me that the Randites don't love trains more. "Atlas Shrugged" was all about a railroad executive and how perfect that little sociopath was.
Just noticed @halva's userid, and now I'm hungry for some [halva]. XD
When I was a kid in my 30s, I was reading LOTR and got to the part where Gimli was talking about "cram"/lembas/waybread. I had a brick of halva in the fridge and that's exactly what I imagined lembas to be: sweet, nutty, and quite filling.
Excuse you. I happen to love taking the train.
Perhaps it is you who don't understand the sheer scale of the United States. The entirety of the British Isles can fit inside Michigan. France is smaller than Texas. All of Europe wouldn't cross the Mississippi River coming from California. Trains are fine when you only gave a couple hundred kilometers to go, but when you're crossing thousands, it's best to take a plane.
No, you know about long distances. I just need to explain to you about territorial boundaries.
I accept none of the blame for Twitler. Do what you want to the obnoxious Cheeto. I didn't vote for him. Lay waste to his entire world. Totalitarians and fascists deserve to burn in nuclear fires. Oligarchs, too.
BURN
THEM
WITH
FIRE.
@halva Video description:
A car is stopped at a grade crossing, as a train, marked "Amtrak California" passes. The camera zooms in on a dashboard touchscreen showing each train car rendered as a gray block in the shape of either a tractor-trailer or an elongated sedan, frequently flickering between the two shapes.
Transcription: [laugh] Look how elongated they are! [laugh] I have never seen that. Oh, my gosh! Great song.
@halva TBF I was failed mate organ driving test by not treating a level crossing with enough respect. We just so rarely get them in the UK. I don't think I'd ever encountered one. I hadn't even learned to fear sunset and the deer that come out then.
I wonder how many roadkill shaped dents Tesla's acquire
Whoa! A Hyperloop without a tunnel! 🤣
Vision-only robotaxis next year? 🙈🍿
@halva the fact that the car can't process the train is a passing detail. that it can't process the *lights* is scary as hell.
And this is in the US, yes? imagine how many other sorts of world crossing lights and stop signs this means it can't deal with, if it can't even manage US ones.
Don't laugh at the hand that steers you?
Maybe the laughter is a stress response to the mortal danger he's put himself in? Paid for, no less...
Looks like it was programmed by a German. Trains are more or less local fairy tales here.