It would be a neat line in the movie too:

“Ecto-2? Shouldn’t it be Ecto-1?”
“Ecto-1 was taken. Apparently back in the 80s. Weird, right?”

Because America is addicted to cars, and our outdated road designs prioritise speed over safety

and the saddest thing is that he doesn’t actually give a damn about the quality of Ligue 1:

“Even when Bayern have dominated the Bundesliga by similar margins, they at least could regularly count on a world-class foe at home to test their steel every season in the form of Borussia Dortmund.”

he’d be perfectly happy if…

City population and Market Size have only an indirect relationship.

clearly if Ligue 1 just eliminated single entity, adopted pro/rel, and went to a winter schedule, they’d be a powerhouse league in no time.

New York has enough trouble with turning congested bus lines into SBS, and that’s a relatively cheap slam dunk of an upgrade. They also need to get their construction costs under control, most American cities have a lower cost per mile, even in tunnels, and in Europe it’s dramatically cheaper.

There are many more…

it would probably average 8-10 mph in shared traffice, 12-15 with dedicated lanes.

That may sound absurdly low, but it’s actually tough for any vehicle to do better than that in dense urban conditions, which is why subways and commuter rails are essential to major cities being more than oversized office parks…

When are they going to test them somewhere where people actually walk across the street on a regular basis?

and that’s why, even though I rarely drive any more, and when I do it’s my beater Camry, I’m quite thankful I live in a state that doesn’t require hideous front license plates.

It’s sort of absurd that despite the butcher’s cleaver BRAC took to bases on the east and west coasts (especially in “blue” states), this country builds oceangoing vessels in fucking Wisconsin.

High speed rail is not noisy or rumbly. The problem is that only a handful of American cities have anything similar, so people assume that bullet trains will be the same experience as the mile-long unit freights that are the only train they know.

Also, US population density overall is completely irrelevant to the…

Can’t they essentially “turn it off” at will, by fully diverting it into the hydroelectic plants?

The stupid thing is that because Khan was such an easy guess, they could have created a twist by picking some other random ToS character.

Call him Robert April, or Gary Mitchell, or whatever else that gets people buzzing, and then boom, Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

More like the NCIS of SciFi.

When was the last time you rode a high floor bus in NYC? Most of them are already low floor. Their ride is also far less bumpy than the school buses that are most people’s only experience with transit.

haven’t you heard, after the test track proves how amazing it is, they’ll just need a couple of months and some pile drivers, unlike rail they won’t have to acquire right of way or build stations or deal with the laws of physics or anything? Why would anyone want to build HSR, which must be like the heavy freight…

Elon Musk: http://www.zdnet.com/article/elon-m…

“derp, you can bring your car with you” is the biggest tell that it’s just a gadgetbahn fantasy. Real-world experience with taking your car with you, whether on trains or ferries, shows that the loading and unloading time is a serious barrier to service. That’s why car-carrier service is almost entirely limited to…

Buy a self driving buses, get rid of the drivers, use their salary to buy more buses, hire more mechanics and fare inspectors

even in small cities, buses carry far more than “1-4 people”