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by gwbas1c9 hours ago |
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upvoteby canpan5 hours ago|
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These places still exist, but you need to look for them. Here in Japan, some remote islands, you can travel overnight boat. I love those. There might be a speed boat or plane, but I love boarding the boat in the evening, everyone feels like having a party, sleeping in a bed and arriving fresh in the morning. (If you are in Tokyo, the nearest is Oshima Island).

There is also slow rail travel, with pretty trains, sleeper car and restaurant. I think Europe has sleeper trains too. I am also interested to go to Europe once by the trans Siberian railway.

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upvoteby loloquwowndueo5 hours ago|
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You’d love Canada and the US. Nothing but slow travel on trains.
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upvoteby Brian_K_White2 hours ago|
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No one takes the train in the US because they don't go anywhere you need to go and aren't nice to be on.
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upvoteby edm0nd42 minutes ago|
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They are also simply too expensive that's why no one takes them imo.

Why spend $2,500-$5,000 and your trip takes ~30+ hours when you can spend $650 and get there in a few hours via flying

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upvoteby Our_Benefactors28 minutes ago|
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> No one takes the train in the US

Extremely ignorant and classist statement; plenty of people take the train.

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upvoteby hparadiz3 hours ago|
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Flying a turboprop from Yakushima to Kagoshima on my way back to Tokyo was a highlight of my trip. Especially the domestic airport lounge with shoe-less tatami mat areas to hang out.
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upvoteby TacticalCoder5 hours ago|
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> I think Europe has sleeper trains too.

Europe has sleeping boats too: you can go from, say, south east of France to the Baelaric island (like Ibiza) in 12 hours overnight.

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upvoteby tialaramex3 hours ago|
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I remember as a child using a sleeper ferry to get between Jersey and the British mainland. Politically Jersey is ours (it's not technically part of the UK but it's a crown dependency), but geographically it's basically in France. Seems like these days there is no overnight option but the long slow ferry from up the coast does take like half a day to get there and you can book a room so you can get some sleep.
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upvoteby IncreasePosts3 hours ago|
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I've taken the ferry from southern Italy(bari) to Croatia and back multiple times. It's a great way to travel. There's a camaraderie on a boat you just don't get on an airplane. Also helps that I can bring my car with me!
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upvoteby tokai3 hours ago|
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The Baltic has a bunch of overnight ferry routes too. Most of them are not very luxurious, but its a nice way to get both travel and sleep done in one go.
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upvoteby gwbas1c3 hours ago|
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I think you miss the point. Think of the movie Titanic, where people were on the boat for a very long time, as opposed to merely an overnight trip.
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upvoteby canpan2 hours ago|
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That is similar to how some of these boats look like, just more modern. Here is an example with pictures https://www.ferry-sunflower.co.jp/en/ (disclaimer, I never went that route, the ones I went with were less glamorous, more modern, but still nice) But yeah, it is mostly one night, because the distance is within Japan.
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upvoteby u1hcw9nx7 hours ago|
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The eastward trips took 53 to 78 hours, it resembled more boat or train trip than flight.
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upvoteby aaron6956 hours ago|
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upvoteby c7b6 hours ago|
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I felt a bit similar about electric cars with a trunk in the front where the engine would sit in an ICE car. But that's more about esthetic expectations, like the first cars looked similar to horse carriages.
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upvoteby elzbardico3 hours ago|
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But here the space also have the role of serving as a crumple zone in case of frontal collisions
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upvoteby CarVac2 hours ago|
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If you can put something in it it doesn't count as crumple zone and the car has to be engineered with a separate crumple zone anyway.
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upvoteby cf100clunk4 hours ago|
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VW Beetle?
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upvoteby gwbas1c3 hours ago|
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I've lost count of the number of people who I've had to explain that, on long trips, you don't "stop to charge." You charge where you stop to poop.
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upvoteby devilbunny2 hours ago|
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I don’t dislike electric cars, but I don’t poop every 3 hours, and it doesn’t take 30 minutes to do so.

When EVs can reliably (including charging infrastructure) do charging as fast as ICE refuels, with 300 miles/500 km between 20-80%, they will win with most people in the US and Canada. Otherwise, we just drive too far, too often. It’s not far off. But until then, it’s not truly a replacement for ICE. Yes, I really do drive for 4-5 hours without stopping, several times a year.

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