Who needs steam machines?
Progress is always good IMO.
Progress is always good IMO.
If you mean it more generally, MattY would like to have a word. https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-techno-optimists-fallacy
Self-driving cars isn't progress. Larger and heavier cars isn't progress. Cars with insane eye-searing LED headlights isn't progress.
There's a rural cost/benefit that ensures we will never not need cars, probably. But I can't fathom why eight lane interstates exist. If we can justify that many lanes of road traffic, we can certainly replace six of them with a train.
Self-driving trains? Easy. And no matter how hard you try, even the most efficient electric car will never end up greener than a train on a per user basis.