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I agree with you - but slippery slope fallacy does not justify ignoring an innovative technology. Municipalities using it as an excuse to malinvest seems like

I agree with you - but slippery slope fallacy does not justify ignoring an innovative technology. Municipalities using it as an excuse to malinvest seems like a bit of a red herring to me - how many places actually did that? And honestly in some low-population towns it might well be the most sensible solution. Any large city though needs alternatives, and the fact that cars are kinda crap at mass transportation still isn't something that has hit most US cities even without self driving cars. They plow billions into expensive, inefficient highway infrastructure anyway.

rglullis 2y ago
> And honestly in some low-population towns it might well be the most sensible solution. That is reversing the logic a bit. The reason that low-population towns don't get to develop their own robust economy is very correlated to its lack of in public transit and fast connections to larger centers. Politicians in the US keep talking about high speed rail and crazy projects, but a (relatively) easier to way to revitalize flyover states would be if they had "regular" passenger rail to connect with each other. Each station would become an opportunity to develop a local economic center, and each center that starts to grow would mean an opportunity for thousands of people to leave the big expensive coastal cities.