no, it's because typical freight shipping distances are lower, cities larger and more common
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ie--adding railways when roads are already sufficient
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I was thinking about how America is at a point where it needs to rebuild/replace a ton of infatracuture anyway.
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And self-driving cars (IMO) will lead to mass non-ownership for fist time in a century. So we can rethink what to replace it with.
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self-driving cars will (afaik) still run on ordinary roads; you only need rail where roads alone can't cope w demand...
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...and in those places, you need road AND rail to meet travel needs
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think of it like the second deck on a bus, maybe--you don't remove the first level when you add the second, etc (weak analogy)
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that's exactly where I started with, thinking you need to pay for both networks.
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right but u see what I'm saying about u only build the "second" network when you have 2 networks worth of users, right?
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what is the base unit of transportation? it's not the car...
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