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In three years they developed the technology needed, more likely just ripped off the tech from Siemens on the Shanghai line.
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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.
I didn’t know that. But then again, I only moved to Berlin late last year and I came from the UK, which is much much worse.
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Yeah definitively, the US is no angel that's for sure but its still aligned with democratic values (at least for now).
Democratic values? As in, the one who receives the most votes will win the election?
Proportional systems are designed from what I understand to balance the power between the populous cities and the country side.
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The maglev they built 17 years ago for a billion dollars? China has been using maglevs for a long time. The low-medium maglevs seem quite useful too: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t... Someday they’ll probably replace their 19,000 miles (soon 25,000) of high-speed rail with maglevs. In the United States, people couldn’t be convinced to build high-speed rail and now the land is expensive.
> Someday they’ll probably replace their 19,000 miles (soon 25,000) of high-speed rail with maglevs. Not necessarily and definitely not soon. Maglev isn't strictly better (unless it's also suitable for cargo trains or China doesn't use their high-speed rail for cargo at all -- not even at night). Replacing high-speed rail by maglev means that you're basically replacing high-speed rail with somewhat higher-speed rail…
The 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 g…
I think the windows on trains generally serve to give situational awareness at the station, once you are up to speed reacting to unexpected impediments isn't so time critical since the train isn't likely to stop fast enough anyway.
I really wish we had high speed rail in Australia. I'd pick a 600km/h train over a plane any day.
Just 3 km/h less than Japan’s current prototype (but approaching production) system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0_Series
In three years they developed the technology needed, more likely just ripped off the tech from Siemens on the Shanghai line.
I will not bring up any names here. But I know there is a project between CRRC, Siemens and a university in Germany to transfer the knowledge from Siemens to China and update e.g. the controller algorithms Edit: so all the rumors about stealing are not true. The knowledge is handed over
Naive, 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?
Either "kph" or "kmph" is a casual, sloppy, but common way, along with abbreviations like "gms" (grams) or "mts" (metres). None of these are unusual in the UK. The correct way is km/h, or (occasionally, for mathematicians or scientists) km·h⁻¹ or km h⁻¹.
I may have seen 'gms', but I can't think when.
I have seen kmph before, but not for several years.
'Kph' it's definitely current in spoken language, but increasingly rare in written form.