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The shitty metro buses in my 3rd rate "city" have air conditioning, wifi, live location tracking to your phone, wheel chair lifts, tap to pay, tap with app to pay, and run on propane because they are old enough to have "features" left over from the last oil crisis.

Can you tell me what a "Not outdated" bus looks like to you?

Europe isn't the richest place. Some of the western cities surely have nice buses, but there are plenty of old shabby buses there too and people still ride them. Might be that the routing and timing sucks, or the general cultural individualism.

The places that have outdated buses also have outdated cars. This isn't the case in the US. The outdated buses have to compete with modern cars.

Might want to visit Budapest. The charm are the old trams etc. and they have tons of modern cars.

In my experience, a Nissan Altima/GMC Acadia are about as nice as a Gillig bus.

> American buses are ridiculously outdated

What exactly are we missing with our "ridiculously outdated" busses?