r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/guyoffthegrid • 4d ago

Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires Video

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u/Marsweep 4d ago

So it's just a tram without tracks, right?

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u/straponkaren 4d ago

Corporations will do everything they can to invent everything they can except for a train, and the reason why is the taxes on the value of train tracks vs the government owning the roads. If the government owned the train tracks and managed them, we would have trains again.

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u/Victormorga 4d ago

“We would have trains again”

What are you talking about? When / where did trains cease to exist?

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u/dudeaciously 3d ago

I agree with the demise of trains. e.g. Public transit in Los Angeles was consciously killed by corporations. Similar unbelievable crippling of public transit in the New York area, same villains (Hassan Minhaj did a show on this).

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u/Victormorga 3d ago

Freight trains are still in constant, heavy use across the entire country, and most major cities have subway / train systems that are a significant part of their public transportation.

I will look up this special by the credibility-free established teller of tall-tales Hassan Minaj.

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u/Mr_FJ 3d ago

You should move to europe :P

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u/Floepiefloepie 3d ago

American...

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u/Right_Composer_9502 4d ago

America. We ain’t got no real trains anymore just Amtrak which uses freight lines in 95% of places. You could go from small town to small town by train years ago but the car companies bought all the land and turned America into a stupid land of highways and now we suck compared to everywhere else oh we suck. Just go to Europe and get a Eurail pass and see what I mean

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u/binz17 3d ago

This thread is about cargo, not passengers. The US still extensively uses cargo trains. They are the cheapest way to move cargo long distances overland.