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> so the resulting effective speed is often barely better than a running speed of an Alzheimer's patient.

What exactly kind of comparison is this?

We outfitted a container with a GPS tracer and watched its progress through the railway network. You couldn't describe it any other way.

Yeah, I'm watching them, but I doubt they'll succeed. Railways are not interested in them succeeding.

"we've always done it this way"

I hate this mindset

Most of the time, though, there are lots of good reasons we've always done it this way.

> barely better than a running speed of an Alzheimer's patient.

wtf

Its a rhetorical device. Certainly effective, you got the picture