Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it

• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope, everywhere.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That ain’t everywhere.

    Certainly more than the US though.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is everywhere that Chinese people live in that country. They consolidated their flyover zones to the left side of the country.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most of that region is mountains, tundra, and desert. Nobody lives there for a reason.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    everywhere

    Don’t look at the left side of the map tho

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More than 96 percent of the Chinese population lives in the eastern half of that country.

      The trains go to the population centers of the 3 and 1/2% on the west side.

      Trains service everyone everywhere in that country.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There is no concentration of US citizens like this. There is no way to service the number of scattered towns we have with one tail line without a truly massive expenditure of resources and I just do not see the point in locking resources into that instead of maintaining current infrastructure for far less.

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• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. 96 percent of Chinese people live on the east half of the country.

  2. as well as the North and West. That whole center bit is accessible too.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, so the trains make sense in certain areas. The US has a similar problem, with the majority of the population in a few specific areas which are already served well by trains. But you then have extremely sparse population spread out through the rest of the country. Trains just don’t work there.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      US cities are definitively not already served well by trains. Trains are prohibitively expensive, literally falling apart and very rare, even in larger population centers in the US.

      Trains would work very well in this country as they work in literally every country that invests in transportation infrastructure.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t even get high speed rail between LA and San Fransisco (yet). US cities in dense areas are not well served by trains.

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