It's amazing how folks will latch on to, "I took a small sample, from the dumbest people I could find, and asked them questions on something they can't experience." 

Loved this video. Americans have a lot to learn when it comes to public transport.

I'm not gonna make fun of american public transport as the netherlands just completely locked up for a few days cause of snow.

Public transit absolutely could work in America, but we would need to change how we design our cities as well as how we live. Many Americans live in sprawling suburbs where public transit is just not realistic. In places that are densely populated public transit does exist and functions well. The issue is that we build sprawling cities with massive suburbs filled with single family dwellings each with their own yard and space. We do the same thing with stores by having hugely sprawling shopping areas (most of which is separated by massive parking lots). It's a chicken and egg problem. You won't convince people to give up cars until they can realistically walk or use public transit to get where they need to go efficiently, but you also can't make things efficient and compact while there is a huge demand for car storage. And beyond that, I think culturally most Americans don't want to live in densely populated areas. Americans culturally put a high value on personal space and that extends to dwellings. Sure there are definitely people who want to live in an urban center, but the "American dream" is a house with a white picket fence and a dog, and until culturally the desire for that changes, America will be a car-centric society as a whole.

Ina town near where I live they bought fully electric bus for the 2.5x the price of a thermal one. You may think okey that expensive because it is well though. But no battery isn't heated so in winter the buses hold a quarter of a day with the heater, the cold etc. And now they break a mirror and they have to be carried to the garage for recalibrating because they refuse to start. On thermal bus they send a technician with a replacement mirror and one hour later bis is good to go. They got scammed hard.

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of having a car and having the option to go anywhere I want whenever I want. At the same time I wish it wasn't my only option. I live in a semi rural area and I literally can't get anything I need as a person without driving. And even if I decided to walk I have to walk alongside a fucking highway with no sidewalk just to get there.

You WILL be shot eventually

Yet the dude probably still drives a car, where the same thing is true. Especially if you drive like a jackass through Oakland and piss enough people off or go to school. Getting shot isn't a problem with public transport. It's just a problem with America.

If it cant work why does it work and did even better in the past before for example germany destroyed a lot of its rail-network

He's right but there's a point where I can't entirely agree. The one about not looking up schedules. It varies a lot and sometimes it's worth checking the time table for planing purposes. It's correct that people shouldn't really have to worry or check a time table before taking public transit, but because the world isn't perfect, it really helps to know how to do that anyway. Because it's not just the US that is stuck with this type of "oh public transit is impossible here", and other countries also have those issues. He recommends travelling but if you do that, you'll also sometimes encounter even worse than in the US.

Before going to some Caribbean islands I like to at least research if it's possible to get around there without a car, using public transit. Sometimes every comment I see on the place says that it's impossible, that I'll need to rent a car or use taxis, but it turns out to be entirely false. And sometimes it really is impossible unless you're feeling really adventurous.

I went to Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten and checked the bus routes online, but there were none. This tiny island does have buses, but apparently locals are used to take them and know where they go and when they pass. There's no published schedules. So as a tourist, you're highly encouraged to rent a car or use taxis. And it was true. I saw bus stops and bus "terminals", but no information posted anywhere. I ended up using a taxi most of the time. I also wanted to cycle parts of the island but just getting to a shop that rented bikes was complicated and I gave up.

However I also went to Guadeloupe and also looked up the routes and schedules before going. Most comments I saw online told me I would need a car, that public transit was unreliable, that it would be absolutely impossible to use it. My host strongly insisted that there was "no public transit to the hotels". Yet, there was. The only thing unclear before going was how to pay and the exact location of the stops. But I knew there was public transit, and I used it. It was like being back in the early 2000s where I live in Canada, with online PDFs of the schedules and the routes, but it was fine, aside from the obviously underfunded system. I gleefully cycled on the wonderful island of Marie-Galante and got there with public transit despite being told multiple times that it would be impossible.

So it's a useful skill to have. I live in a city with decent public transit. I don't check the schedules for the metro because they come every few minutes. I also don't check the schedules for a few frequent bus routes that I know. But, it becomes useful and/or necessary if I'm not familiar with the area or the system. Trip planning shouldn't be dismissed on the count of a bad system. Sometimes you want to know where the bus/tram/train is going, and when it will reach its destination.