I really wish we had high speed rail in Australia. I'd pick a 600km/h train over a plane any day.
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That's because DB is really bad. Everyone in Europe knows how bad DB is. It has nothing to do with high speed trains.
China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
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Re: China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
#22I’ve ridden on the Changsha Maglev, China’s first indigenous maglev and I was thoroughly unimpressed. The ride was rough and quite slow, nothing like their High Speed Rail which is world leading. I’m surprised they’d be able to develop world leading technology so quickly. But then again for areas of strategic interest we’ve seen China make similar bounds before. Makes me wonder how their Made in China 2025 efforts in…
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#23Naive, irrelevant question. Is kph the correct way to signal "kilometers per hour" in English? I think I have seen this before in videogames maybe. Is it an US-only thing?
"kph" makes no sense - kilos per hour?
Offical SI notation is km/h, and IMO that's what should be used.
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#24In three years they developed the technology needed, more likely just ripped off the tech from Siemens on the Shanghai line.
Your sentiment is popular this days with the big propaganda we see but is there any hint that what you say is true, maybe they stole it from other company or maybe in a country with such a large population you will have a large number of smart people.
Also it doesn't really matter since the implementation is close to 20 years old, which means the patents should have expired anyway.
Re: China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
#25I really wish we had high speed rail in Australia. I'd pick a 600km/h train over a plane any day.
I always wondered about this as well. It seems like a nobrainer especially in SE Australia. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, up to Brisbaine. Although 600km/h would probably be unnecessarily fast and not economically viable on these routes, a normal 300+ HSR would surely provide huge benefits.
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#26In three years they developed the technology needed, more likely just ripped off the tech from Siemens on the Shanghai line.
Relevant, although not exactly the same tech. I believe they lost the subsequent lawsuits even, because, China doesn't really care about IP theft: http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-sp...
Breakthroughs sure are easier when you can just help yourself to most of the answers but there does seem to be at least some homegrown contributions as well.
Re: China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
#27Naive, irrelevant question. Is kph the correct way to signal "kilometers per hour" in English? I think I have seen this before in videogames maybe. Is it an US-only thing?
I'd say it's the most common way that it's said in Australia.
Re: China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
#28In three years they developed the technology needed, more likely just ripped off the tech from Siemens on the Shanghai line.
Your sentiment is popular this days with the big propaganda we see but is there any hint that what you say is true, maybe they stole it from other company or maybe in a country with such a large population you will have a large number of smart people.
Of course it’s propaganda the shocking thing is not that they are pushing for a China is bad story. It’s that they pretended it was not happening for the last decades eroding industries and blue collar jobs putting us in today’s situation where a totalitarian state governs most electronics manufacturing of the world including most of the supply chain.
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#29The cabin is interesting. There doesn't seem to be much visibility through the windows. I guess at such speeds the driver can only rely on information feeds from far up ahead, and there's little advantage to being able to see with the naked eye. Large windows would probably make it less safe in the event of flying debris too.
It makes me wonder why not get rid of them all together and make the cabin like a tank. To get some sunlight perhaps?
Re: China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
#30I’ve ridden on the Changsha Maglev, China’s first indigenous maglev and I was thoroughly unimpressed. The ride was rough and quite slow, nothing like their High Speed Rail which is world leading. I’m surprised they’d be able to develop world leading technology so quickly. But then again for areas of strategic interest we’ve seen China make similar bounds before. Makes me wonder how their Made in China 2025 efforts in…
How did it compare to BART? I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing anything else yet.