Why are maglev trains still rare?
They were invented decades ago.
They have fewer moving parts than wheelbois.
They require less maintenance.
There's obviously some bottleneck in expanding maglev technology, but what is it?
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because cars cars cars
More likely just the shear cost of building the tracks.
oh yeah, definitely just prohibitive cost
Still cheaper than maglev rails I’d guess.
This argument may be true in regards to rail in general. This specific question is “why not maglev instead of rail”. That’s not car’s fault - it’s just extremely expensive to build maglev and that’s compared even to regular high speed trains.