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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    10 months ago

    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.