[JumpCrisscross]

> outrageous to ask for some of the crumbling infrastructure around us to be updated or better maintained

The top reaction on this thread almost refutes itself. Were this a story about autonomous rovers being ordered, I doubt anyone would blink an eye. But because it’s about even studying trains, we have complaints about cost.

> not like we need billions in R&D

But it does cost us billions more to do with trains what our peers have done.