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6 days agoOr made it easier, since you could do maintenance on the panels with some rail cart directly. I see how solar roadways may not have been convenient, but with rail it’s not as dumb. Placing the panels on the side also means more land use, and not every place in the world is spacious, especially Switzerland

Why would that be the case in the future? It was in the past, when people used to maintain whatever they made/bought and use it until it was completely unusable, because they were too poor to buy a new one
Industry and automation made production way more cost efficient, but didn’t do the same for repairing, probably because it’s not as predictable and automatable as making stuff from scratch
You can repair a lot of stuff, but you usually have to pay more than the price of buying a new item