Comment on Why do we put up with this crap?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 months agoWhen you factor in the number of people the airplane carries, they are about 3 times more efficient than a car with one person in it.
Comment on Why do we put up with this crap?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 months agoWhen you factor in the number of people the airplane carries, they are about 3 times more efficient than a car with one person in it.
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Note they mentioned rail as the desired alternative, rather than cars.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just saying, compared to driving, airplanes are usually better. Also trains in the US suck. Much slower, and almost comparable in price to air travel.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It doesn’t have to be that way, many other countries have solved those issues. But because we’ve leaned so heavily on air travel to get us to places only a few hours away by land there hasn’t been any incentive to innovate or invest in other forms of long-distance mass transit.