Trains reach record speed in Beijing-Zhangjiakou test run
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Trains reach record speed in Beijing-Zhangjiakou test run
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#2385km/h
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#3One thing is to have a such train, the other thing is to build the track. I think it is really hard to build a smooth track for such speeds but it seems they could do it.
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#4The train reached its record speed but 385km/h is nowhere near a record. China Daily is a state-owned newspaper.
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#5The actual world record for a train was set in 2015 on the Japanese Yamanashi Test Track: 603 km/h
The non-prototype record is set by the French TGV in 2007: 574.8 km/h
But even in China trains have been traveling at 486.1 km/h in 2010 (Beijing–Shanghai HSR).
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#6> the line is expected to be the world's first autonomous, driver-monitored railway.
I wonder what this will look like to the driver. I'm imagining the train displaying it's intended actions, but I wonder if the driver has to acknowledge anything at all?
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#7> 10 percent higher than the designed speed
...wasn't smth like "doing research on a live production system to get X% higher than designed output" what the Cernobil engineers were trying to do? Hope their sticking to trains with this mindset and not generalizing it to more dangerous industries :|
Anyway, at least electric trains are the kind of technology that will benefit everyone when it gets exported, so yey!
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#8The train reached its record speed but 385km/h is nowhere near a record. China Daily is a state-owned newspaper.
They will travel (with passenger) with 385km/h. That would be a new record. Until now the fastest travel with 350km/h.
But of course the "top speed" without passenger is much much higher.
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#9When I travelled to China for the first time I've spent one month there travelling across the entire country via their highspeed train network. It's amazing, all major places are so well connected and the trains are really cheap, offer 1st, 2nd, 3rd and business class acommodating all various budgets and comfort styles and they run really smoothly and are amazingly on time!
After departure it doesn't take more than a handful minutes before the train reaches its desired speed of just over 300km/h and it remains consistent at this speed for the entire journey unless it has to stop at a station.
I wish Europe was so well connected via such an efficient and affordable train system. I think then we could easily raise the tax on airplanes to ridiculous premiums and happily expect people to entirely ditch short distance flights.
China is doing amazing things and they get way too little credit for all the innovative things they do. Unfortunately we only get to read the negatives, but I went back to China again and I really love how people live there in increasingly better conditions and not only outpacing other countries economically, but also making huge efforts in creating a fair, enjoyable and sociable environment for everyone.
Say what you want, but you'll never understand until you've been there yourself and experienced China first hand yourself. It's nothing what the media makes us believe!
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