China's new high-speed train just set a new record as the world’s fastest — and it could travel faster than an airplane
China's new high-speed train just set a new record as the world’s fastest — and it could travel faster than an airplane
When completed, the maglev train will reach 621 miles per hour, much faster than commercial flights.
On a recent test run, the train sprinted to record-breaking speeds of 281 miles per hour, making it the fastest train in the world.
That's not even close to the current record, which is 375 mph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_speed_record
Once completed, engineers hope the maglev will reach 621 mph
Yeah, that's a big "if" right there.
I'm all for high speed rail and I hope they succeed, but this article is terrible.
And only if will it approach airplane speed.
I think we really need to start shoving the noses of Democrats on how much China is beating our ass in just about everything in regard to infrastructure and going green. Pride is about the only thing i can think of that might make the Dems do something other than the barest of bare minimums on these things and point out how the supposedly "bad" country is doing better then us might get people to think. idk anything to challenge American Exceptionalism
I think you're oversimplifying things, Trump wasn't doing more than the bare minimum either. We really need to fuck off all these political systems that prop up politicians that have never lived with their constituents and start sending inept and lying politicians to jail.
This implies that I consider the Republicans any short of type of legitimate. The only thing I care to do with the nazi party is to treat them as nazi's should be treated. While the younger generation would probably agree with me, we are not quite where we need to be with that. So if i'm talking about anything in regards to handling politics in any way that isn't a riot, i'm going to be referring to Democrats...who the vast majority are also not legitimate but many people are not ready to hear that yet, so I offer the suggestion I have at the time. I do agree with you mostly. I would greatly like to burn it all to the ground and build something better, but until the people are there, i'm going to suggest things that might work in our current climate while suggesting people organize and work on opening people's understanding on the fact that our institutions only exist to serve the ruling class. Let's just say I wait for the day that we can have cocktails at these people's houses.
Yeah but can it go to Costco 😏 checkmate libs
and it cant safely pick up my spoiled little shit of a kid from middle school when there's a quarter inch of snow on the ground
Shanghai Costco:
Mon dieu, faster than the TGV? I think not sacrebleu!
One of those crashing while going "faster than an airplane" would seem more catastrophic than an airplane crashing.
Are these bullet trains safer than planes or as dangerous as regular trains?
Japan's bullet trains have famously never had a fatal crash in it's 59 year history.
This cannot be said of their conventional trains.
That's what I wanted to hear! Amazing.
Hopefully, China's trains are as good as Japan's 😬
Do you know how much maintenance and regulation goes into airplane management? All those regulations have been written blood.
They would make a decent start on regulations for high speed rail. In addition to the regulations that have made existing high speed rail safe...
Trains derail on occasion. Planes crash on occasion. But at least with trains we're not accelerating the death of the planet
But at least with trains we’re not accelerating the death of the planet
A mag lev train doing 500+mph is going to need a lot more energy than a normal train. It will probably be less than the plane but I'm thinking it won't be as much less as you might think.
Thae train is also doing those speeds at sea level vs the plane doing them at 35,000ft or higher, where there's less than 1/4 the atmosphere to fight.
As far as I am aware no country on earth is CO2 neutral, so for these trains the emissions are still positive.
It's a maglev "train". Quite different technology and hard to derail at least. But yes there have been fatal accidents with maglev trains before.