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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    One of the most common flights is US west coast to east coast. Normal high speed rail can’t do this in a reasonable time frame. We need something faster if we want to get reduce those flights.

    One of the features of capitalism is externalizing the costs, especially of pollution.

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      Ah, that makes sense. So maglev is overall cheaper but still less profitable because the costs are paid where they’re incurred.