Why doesn’t the U.S. have high speed trains?

Why doesn’t the U.S. have high speed trains?

Around the world, high-speed trains zip from city to city, sometimes topping 250 miles per hour before dropping off hundreds of passengers right in a city’s downtown. However, in the U.S., that vision of efficient, fast, environmentally friendly travel remains a dream. 

Japan built high-speed trains more than 50 years ago, an engineering marvel then and now. Its bullet trains (a term coined by the Japanese) connect the country’s megalopolises with eye-popping levels of efficiency; the average delay is less than a minute. China has 23,500 miles of high-speed tracks traversing its countryside, linking its coastal megacities like

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The Cat. 5 Hurricane The General public Doesn’t See

The Cat. 5 Hurricane The General public Doesn’t See

When a hurricane strategies New Orleans, we know what to do. Whether evacuating, boarding windows, or stocking up on necessary supplies, the general public has expertise working with these catastrophic threats. But what does the public do, especially individuals in Black and impoverished communities, when the threat derives from a little something they just can’t see, contact, or really feel?

This is the challenge now confronted with the swift rise of synthetic intelligence (AI). Even the creators of neural networks, the

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