Taiwan literally had a government intervention to launch TSMCcand developed their university system around TSMC being the crown jewel of employment, while the US has had dysfunctional support for anything STEM that succeeds in spite of itself.

Why would you believe this? The talent is specialized and most of them are already employed by the few dominant market players.

Fuck that. Requiring trains to be built in the US will blow up the already obscene budget even more and lead to poor-quality trains due to a lack of experience in high speed trainset manufacturing.

We saw this in Boston, where the requirement of US-made led to absolutely fucked supply chains, constant delays and cost overruns, and shoddily constructed trains with a multitude of problems (though, admittedly, the entire Boston transit system has these problems anyway so I guess it’s just another part of government dysfunction). For what? For a voting bloc of like a thousand temporary workers?

Thing is, the US doesn’t really have high speed rail in the pipeline that can share technical expertise. The proposed Texas line is planning to use Shinkansen trains, Brightline already has a supplier, and so does Amtrak. Where are you going to get economies of scale to come into play?

It’s also a fucking California state project, and California is the safest blue state that ever blued.

China did to EVs what the US did to semiconductors.

The US and EU markets lack competition.

The SF Bay area needs more funding for transportation, period. The roads seem to always be under construction and the traffic lights just spontaneously stop working sometimes.

Sound? Though I guess all the fancy expensive cars remove this feedback

Humans don’t drive on sight alone.

If the computer vision model can’t detect edges around a human-shaped object, that’s usually a dataset issue or a sensor (data collection) issue… And it sure as hell isn’t a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

Ah yes, because all humans are equally bad drivers.

A self-driving car shouldn’t compete with the average human because the average human is a fucking idiot. A self-driving car should drive better than a good driver, or else you’re just putting more idiots on the road.

Trains in California suck because of government dysfunction across all levels. At the municipal level, you can’t build shit because every city is actually an agglomeration of hundreds of tiny municipalities that all squabble with each other. At the regional level, you get NIMBYism that doesn’t want silly things like trains knocking down property values… And these people have a voice, because democracy I guess (despite there being a far larger group of people that would love to have trains). At the state level, you have complete funding mismanagement and project management malfeasance that makes projects both incredibly expensive and developed with no forethought whatsoever (Caltrain has how many at-grade crossings, again?).

This isn’t a train problem, it’s a problem with your piss-poor government. At least crime is down, right?

Those areas don’t really have silly things like pedestrains, though. They’re also far too small of a market to design self-driving cars for.

Your number is a bit off. It’s more around 569000 per person.

Isn’t most of this due to India and China?

China’s poverty rate fell from like 88% in 1981 to basically nothing today.

Don’t say stupid shit if you don’t want to be called out for it 🤷‍♀️

Massa-fucking-chusetts.

Bad apples make the whole place suck ass.

Tell me you’ve never been outside your city without telling me you’ve never been outside your city.

A lot of US cities have really suspect lead pipes (Chicago, for one) and in general the water quality is highly dependent on the age of your building.

A shocking number of US cities also run their pipes through chemical spills (like Pasadena) and dilute the pollutants to below the legal limit.

A large number of “public washrooms” are tucked behind “please purchase to use” signs, even if they are de facto public washrooms.

The US has been shockingly and incredibly open with it’s racism in a way that other countries lack. Being from East or Southeast Asia is just begging to get screamed at in some neighborhoods. My fault for not being one of the “right” minorities, I guess.

Canadian living in America, and I hate it here. It’s not pretentious to say that America fucking sucks, because living in American cities objectively fucking sucks.

I’m sure small-town America is nice, though.

Shit country, great pay in a few fields.

If you’re skilled labour and not a software engineer, just move to Canada tbh.

No, because most drivers are idiots. Comparing with the average is comparing against idiots.

You live in a democracy lol

You make it sound like you’re in an authoritarian state