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		bombcar 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privately-Owned Rail Cars Traffic jams have become so much easier to handle with lane following and down-to-zero adaptive cruise control. A backlog of hundreds of hours of podcasts doesn’t hurt. Still would prefer the train.

bobthepanda 3 months ago [–]

While this is true, there is also something to be said about predictability.

A train that is an hour slower than the best driving time but consistently so is easier to plan around than a car that is an hour faster or an hour slower than the train with no clear rhyme or reason.

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