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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
At this point just pay China to build the damn thing, everything we have is already made in China anyway what's the difference
I'm suggesting a new form of transportation that is truly American.
What we will do is create a giant gun. The bullet will house the passengers who are then launched to their destination. In order to safety stop, we will create giant mannequins out of ballistic gel...
The giant mannequins will be named after prominent African American figures
This could've been a perfect comic if the black ranger was missing in the last panel
Forget Good Idea: Here’s Bad Idea
Not even just worse. It's like the worst idea ever. a 140mph bus has enough kinetic energy to turn the average passenger vehicle into a literal pancake. Nobody is surviving that.
Just put it on a dedicated, physically separated lane, connecting each bus to maximize throughput. You can use harder, metal tires to reduce friction loss.
now this is innovation right here
call it B-train 
Not to mention the only way to get a bus up to that speed consistently is if it had its own dedicated lane with limited entrances with very gradual curves. And if you’ve bothered building out the infrastructure for all that, you might as well have just built out the infrastructure for HSR.
Methinks the idea here is they’ll add “just one more lane” with the pinky promise for it to be for the high-tech bullet buses. A shit-ton of money will be thrown at startups and consultants to “innovate” the bus lane design, in the end they’ll produce butkis, and it’ll end up just being an overpriced highway widening.
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Cowards won't even match highspeed rail speeds.
Great, those are obviously unsafe on the freeway for a thousand reasons, so let's just whack those on dedicated roads. And since only those buses go on the roads, they could be steel wheels on steel road for extraordinarily better efficiency, and obviously steel is pricey so we'll just limit the road to two 'rail' like lengths. Dedicated lines can be electrified for more efficiency, build some dedicated bus board/alight platforms, a bit of signalling to prevent crashes and avoid building excessive rail, extensible for varying passenger numbers, and BAM, perfect project.
I was thinking maybe you could connect more buses together to improve efficiency. You can remove the engine from most buses that way!
So this is going to end up with them using lots of public transport budget to build the dedicated high speed bus freeways, the idea immediatly falters for reasons obvious to anyone that hasn't been kicked in the head by a horse and then ah well, since we have the dedicated bus highway network but no busses might aswell open it to cars
Consulting is the wildest grift I've ever seen.
For just $300k per year, I will design a mass transit system where we are worms driving apple cars at a millionty-billion miles per hour. It will still require car infrastructure but worse.
Unfortunately we have to turn down your proposal because our board wants to integrate in AI more to proposals and doesn't feel you're quite on the same page.
How the fuck do people do it? Like how do you get started and get the confidence to consult. I'm a very smart boy and would be good at it but i'd be scared i'd think of a dumb idea like bullet buses and get fired
You need unwarranted, delusional confidence to do this kind of consulting. It's the kind you can only get from a whole career's worth of sucking up and then getting sucked up to in return.
You also need to be a nepo baby. Deloitte and McKinsey are make work programs for the children of politicians and business ghouls.
The wildest thing is that all these consultants are fresh out of college. They have zero real world experience and are just paid to say "cut costs, do crime in a way that gives you plausible deniability."
They're gonna finally give us a bus that can jump 100 motorcycles
I want to jump every member of congress with a steam roller.
What if we had something that was like a train, except far more dangerous, obscenely more fuel inefficient and expensive to run, subject to far more unpredictable conditions due to other drivers, and would travel on a road instead of a railway line which requires far more maintenance? And would just go far slower than HSP anyway?
And would just go far slower than HSP anyway?
Imagining a bus racing next to a styrofoam container of chips and meat, and the bus still loses
Damn, can't believe I didn't notice that.
High Speed Phail.
Autonomous + 140mph = "fun"
Straight from the Onion wtf
My problem with public transport has always been that it's just not terrifying enough to ride
They are literally doing the onion bit...
Dear China: you may have a safe and sprawling network, but we will have Mickey’s Dick Smasher 
Reasons for California HSR's troubles:
The only thing this alleviates is maybe land acquisition, because you can more easily follow existing highway corridors and just drive into downtown, while making all other problems worse because now there's no GLOBAL expertise!
In the article, a professor suggests that it could be used to supplement high-speed rail by setting them up as "feeder lines" between HSR stations and nearby towns. But the line is already designed so that most towns in the Central Valley are less than thirty minutes away by car from an HSR station, so what's the point?
autonomous buses
Ah cool I wonder how many people it will run over per week.
What could possibly go wrong lmao.
What's that thing? How many times are they going to reinvent the train?
I just thought of something that would put Elon Musk to shame
-Whatever consultant came up with this shit.
Rip up the roads and build trains. Kill your car companies. They are.more trouble than they are worth.
It takes almost nothing for me to consider fed posting these days
I'd love to ride in one of these things only for it to smash directly into a car because it's in the "designated" bus lane
These people are just fishing for government handouts. They have no intention of actually making this happen.
Forget high speed rail. Please. Please forget it
this is cheaper than paying a bus driver min wage, somehow
I actually busted out laughing. So now and in just this case the dems will be pro-bus because not only is it not city public transportation - it's an AI-powered death machine
first as farce, and then as tragedy
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You beat me to it!
Why autonomous? Something something unsafe working conditions.
