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by matt_the_bass 3093 days ago
> But when was the last time you heard about an automated train startup? When did you hear about someone leaving their job at Facebook to go work on train automation? Trains do not appeal to rich billionaires or American tech workers in the same way that cars do, so funding for them comes entirely from the capex budgets of mostly government funded rail operators, and is spent on a handful of large engineering conglomerates.

I think this is it