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[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Because 9/10 times they are awful, expensive, unused, and quickly shut down.

You don't see any of these niche techslop pods operating anywhere you actually go, because they don't work.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

have you actually looked at what we're talking about, like at all? or are you just following the programming of "small vehicle=bad"?

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

okay so where do these things actually work?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

on the testing tracks, because it's new technology and needs to be exhaustively tested before the government allows it to be put into service.

like, trains were also new technology at one point, being new doesn't somehow inherently make it bad lmao

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Except this is not the first time this sort of thing has been proposed.

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