But it’s an even worse version because with it the traffic on rail networks would explode, the complexity of the unit that moves everything increases (as well as cost), and it pisses away all the efficiency trains get from economies of scale. A 2 mile train will always be more efficient than this crap. And that’s all before you consider the safety nightmare that this would cause.
There were 6-12 wild turkeys in my neighborhood. Once in a while, a driver would kill them. It was always a sad moment when you notice there’s some missing.
During the pandemic, there was over 30. Nature was healing.
Unfortunately I moved before knowing if their fate has changed.
Now stop me if you’ve heard this before, but what if… and this is just a thought, don’t get too worked up… but what if instead of just one of those, we hooked a bunch of them together and pulled them with something?
I have nothing intelligent to add, but I just want to say that I sincerely hate cars. This sub isn’t a joke to me, I wish those god damn things were never invented.
I’m tired of breathing their cancer-causing fumes, I’m tired of the honking and screeching, I’m tired of worrying I’ll get run over just walking around my neighborhood, I’m tired of micro plastics in my brain because some fat asshole was too lazy to ride a bike, I’m tired of climate change threatening global stability. Sorry for the rant.
This is one if the reasons I think car-dependent suburban sprawl is so much environmentally worse than so many people think it is. I’ve encountered far too many people who think sprawling suburbs are full of nature just because they have trees and grass lawns – usually to contrast with “concrete jungles”. Like yes, dense areas could often use more greenery, but car-dependent sprawl is nowhere near being a healthy ecosystem. Cars, suburbs, roads, and all our malarkey are inherently disruptive to nature, so we should do our best to minimize our impact.
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