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In the USA our wildest dreams are maybe having a sort of crappy version of the technology we already had up and running in the 1890s.
In all fairness, we do have a few objectively nicer things, like level-boarding for wheelchairs and strollers into LRT carriages, and pantographs rather than trolley poles.
But we did lose 100+ MPH operation in the 30s, when the 79 MPH track limits came into being for most railroads.
So in total, if that's all we've progressed after a century, then yeah, we haven't gone very far.