🤷 I don’t actually agree with the sentiment. I am describing how other people feel about it. I don’t even own a car. I actually want high speed rails. All I am telling you is that that is how opponents feel about it, and to get what you want, you have to address those feelings, probably in some form of marketing campaign.
![[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/11c37658-7c32-4cc2-b12c-6ced348bd09d.png){kind=link}
So we should build all our cities to have dangerous roads with high speed vehicles, associated pollution from asphalt and tires, and all of the currently existing road fatalities (42k people in the usa https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-estimates-2022 20k people in the EU https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_953_ because “people” are afraid of strangers? Grow up
🤷 I don’t actually agree with the sentiment. I am describing how other people feel about it. I don’t even own a car. I actually want high speed rails. All I am telling you is that that is how opponents feel about it, and to get what you want, you have to address those feelings, probably in some form of marketing campaign.