American engineers tend to tackle problems differently than Old World engineers do, and that's okay.
Regarding modifying US freight locomotive designs for passenger use - didn't Amtrak do that in their early days, and see less than stellar results across multiple models? Might be one reason they were so reluctant to take that path again.
It’s worth noting that you can make the argument that European standard adoption actually suggests non-HSR improvements as well. https://open.substack.com/pub/marcochitti/p/the-long-modernization-of-the-italian?r=4g34gq&utm_medium=ios
But of course HSR will have a lot of appeal no matter what sensible experts will tell you.
"In the future, I will literally never need to interact with terrestrially-based cell phone infrastructure"
Dude even Elon Musk has said land based wireless will always be superior to Starlink, Starlink is mainly for areas that cant get terrestrial service
Regarding modifying US freight locomotive designs for passenger use - didn't Amtrak do that in their early days, and see less than stellar results across multiple models? Might be one reason they were so reluctant to take that path again.
It’s worth noting that you can make the argument that European standard adoption actually suggests non-HSR improvements as well. https://open.substack.com/pub/marcochitti/p/the-long-modernization-of-the-italian?r=4g34gq&utm_medium=ios
But of course HSR will have a lot of appeal no matter what sensible experts will tell you.
"In the future, I will literally never need to interact with terrestrially-based cell phone infrastructure"
Dude even Elon Musk has said land based wireless will always be superior to Starlink, Starlink is mainly for areas that cant get terrestrial service