Wow... You seriously want California to remain unimodal in its transport, with the only choice for getting around being the car? That is just dumb.

Self-driving cars are not the answer. Adamsomething on YouTube explains why.

>It's also really fucking expensive compared to just getting in a car and driving.

Everything has its price. Car dependency is nothing but a tool of wealth concentration.

Plus do not forget China's reputation of building with tofu dregs.

Seriously? Continue concentrating wealth in as few hands as possible? That is the only thing car dependency does.

i.e., Continue with the ultra-inefficient ultra-polluting car-centric status quo. Do you realize how idiotic that sounds?

"Shut up and drive"...

That is precisely what all naysayers against alternatives to the car in the US always say.

Xfinity *is* Comcast.

"Enraged Students".

This is not the kind of article for Slashdot. I am not sure how much of Slashdot's readership leans left.

UBI will instantly be countered by an uptick in inflation. The ultra-rich profit off of keeping poor people poor.

The word "consumer" is a way for the ultra-rich to talk down to a working-class person, as if the ultra-rich think the only purpose of a working-class person is to consume. It is a raw insult.

Attempting to use eminent domain in this case would only lead to a huge waste of time and money fighting lawsuits.

Can anyone say "tofu dreg construction"?

But that is not nearly as environmentally friendly as electric trains.