Meanwhile, US trains are using 50 year old technology
The world has passed us by
I don‘t need no train, I got me a car!
You got that right.
Private automobiles run door to door on a schedule of the driver's own choosing.
Trains require passengers to find transportation to a fixed station, for a train that runs on a fixed time schedule as well as having to find a trip from the station to your final destination.
Further, they usually choose the worst possible locations in dangerous Inner City Hell Holes for their stations.
This is the station that is closest to my domicile, in Alliance Ohio. The train stops here in the middle of the night.
Amtrak Train Station Alliance, OH has a platform only, no shelter, without Wi-Fi, with parking, with accessible platform and no wheelchair available.
www.amtrak.com