Let me summarize the argumemts here for convenience: - HSR is dumb because it's too expensive to build a HSR from coast to coast - HSR is dumb because it's sl

Let me summarize the argumemts here for convenience: - HSR is dumb because it's too expensive to build a HSR from coast to coast - HSR is dumb because it's slower than flying - HSR is dumb because self-driving cars do everything HSR does, but better - HSR is dumb because electric scooters are much better for getting around town I am wondering what this mythical HSR is, that electric scooters and coast-to-coast flights are somehow both the nails in its coffin. Straw men doesn't even begin to describe it! HSR is of course complementary to all of the technologies above. Heaven forfend, though, that we pursue a future transit system in more than one mode at a time...