Yeah, moving from point A to point B autonomously without relying on public transit i.e. sharing space with other people totally depending on other people's whims and fancies should be a luxury.
> It's simply a better system even if not perfect.
Americans also like guns a lot more than is sane so you might not be convincing them. I've heard many people say they prefer big cars because they know if something goes wrong, its the other guy who gets hurt.
Okay, but the argument was that it should be "extremely expensive".
> It's only expensive when compared to the US system where you in most states are only paying for a piece of plastic, not tens of hours of people's time training you properly.
I definitely paid my driving instructor. The labor cost at the licensing bureau was only about 15 worker-minutes.
Last time I checked trains run on a schedule, not the whims of the engineer, but maybe trains are really weird in your country.
And that they're not infected with some novel disease...
Public transit was pretty dangerous and way less useful during most of 2020.