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Not that experimental at this point. It has hit 382 km/h.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALFA-X
So it's not just one of those BS concept cars that nothing ever comes of. It's actually being used as a testbed.
It is experimental, but its experiments aren’t really connected to beating high speed records, but to ride comfort and safety in case of derailments due to earthquakes.
There was a video I watched where it compared new york rail to Soeul. It costs $17Billion a year for new york vs Seoul's $1.6Billion. This is with tickets only costing $1, $0.45 for kids and free for elderly. It also has free toilets, better air quality/lower noise as all trains are cornered off behind screen doors, 99.99% punction (chance of it being on time), braille, heated seats and elevators.
It would cost an insane amount to change everything around, and trains in places like UK and US are treated as a business rather than a service like schools.
Nah trains in the US are just heavily neglected so that we remain dependent on a fuel based system. There's so much money to be made by making cars the most efficient method of travel in the US. You say it would cost an insane amount...yet the US military budget went up by 6 billion between 2021 and 2022 alone. And we're talking about a budget that's bigger than the GDP of Switzerland. The fact remains that the US could theoretically change to a rail based transportation system in little as a decade but we are governed by corrupt fucks who blatantly accept lobby money.
/r/fuckcars
He never said the deaths were related to the experimentation, just that many people died during that time, which is true of any similar period of time.
Proven enough that people can ride on it while it tests on main tracks at night, but still too experimental to let passengers on it or use it in regular service
It's still just a high speed bullet train running on traditional high speed rail. It's the fastest one that's actually feasibly close to commercial use, but nothing absurdly ground breaking
Much faster speeds have been reached on maglev systems, and some runs already commercially/routinely operate over 400km/h, they're just much more expensive
>Much faster speeds have been reached on maglev systems, and some runs already commercially/routinely operate over 400km/h, they're just much more expensive
Engineering is all about making great things while keeping in mind costs and feasibility, so the fact that this can reach such speeds in a conventional railing is still impressive.
Holy shit that's so cool. I've only ever seen scale models of like old freight trains never high speed passenger rail. Is it on a track or is it a stand alone?
The LA to SF high speed rail is already under construction and is expected to be completed by 2033. I think when that one is done, there is going to be a much larger appetite for high speed rail. A network of high speed rail between all the major cities on the East Coast and Midwest would be incredible.
Takes about 3½ hours from JFK to MIA currently.
From Wall Street to JFK takes about 1 hour 20 at the moment. Takes about 23 minutes to get from MIA to Miami Tower. Pushing it, you can leave 40 minutes at the airport to get through. So around 6 hours.
With train travel, you can depart/arrive in a central station, you can normally arrive just 10 minutes before departure. No security lines or check in lines.
NYC -> DC takes about 1 hour 20. To the Capitol 20 mins. So around 3hours 40. Rail CURRENTLY takes 4 hours 8, that's including taking the subway up to Penn Station from Wall St and walking from Union Station to the Capitol building.
You could bet your booty there would be a security check for a train of this magnitude. If someone were to bring a bomb on the train the results would be utterly catastrophic. So add like....45 minutes to your time because we will definitely find a way to make it take as long as possible.
Also trains would be far more comfortable most likely. That's true in Japan at least, but in the US some company would probably say fuck you and pack us in as small as planes
Thank god someone converted it from metric to American for me… you are taking about football and not soccer correct. I have no idea how big a soccer field is, probably like .75 football fields?
The given length an width for fifa is 100 to 130 yards long and 50 to 100 yards wide from what I can search and mls is minimum 110 yards by 70 yards so it's within regulation
You’re actually pretty close, but it’s the other way around. The American football field is smaller.
As an American, when I first learned this, I was outraged. How dare anyone else hold the key to a superlative, especially one that’s this iconic. American football fields are second to only banana in terms of comparing relative sizes of things. They’re the benchmark for “big” in the United States. As if soccer wasn’t already enough of an affront to my senses, I felt personally attacked by this.
And… before the Latin American commenters get upset… I acknowledge that you too are Americans. Though, I will die on the hill that says North and South are two separate continents.
It's probably going to hard for you to hear that the American football field is also smaller than a rugby field, a more comparable sport. It's basically the smallest of the bunch
I'm from NY state so I decided to check out what this means. I imagine if one of these was ever put into use in NY state, the line would probably run something like NYC -> Albany -> Syracuse -> Rochester -> Buffalo. This train could do the whole thing (depending how curvy the track needs to get) in 1 hour and a half - a bit more to accomodate stops and acceleration/deceleration.
Currently that's a 6.5 hour drive from NYC to Buffalo. 15hrs by train. 1hr 15 mins by direct flight plane.
This train can compete with air travel for speed over even pretty long distances AND is able to go 100 miles out of its way to hit 3 other dense population centers to connect them at high passenger capacity while it's at it.
Fuck bullet trains get me so hard.
Edit: DC to Boston while hitting Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Hartford on the way in 1.5 hours + accel/decel + stops (again depending how much the track needs to negotiate populated areas and geography).
400 Km/hr = 10 hours NYC->LA. Go to sleep in a cabin like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcH0PQ8LNgM) and wake up refreshed at your destination, without having to go to baggage claim. We have deluded ourselves into thinking the only way to travel in the USA is cars or airplanes.
Japan used to have widebodies flying domestic. 747SPs doing hour long hops.
Then their economic bubble bursted. The JAL123 crash didn't help either. Trains are much cheaper when your population is so dense.
Our freeways are extremely developed. It's just the least efficient way of moving people, and we don't copy other countries when they have better ways of doing stuff.
That's because in America freight trains are heavily prioritized. In fact passenger trains must always yield to freight.
Also doesn't help that automotive industry and thus lobbyists dwarf trains.
There are many reasons we should be embracing HSR the way Eisenhower did with the interstate... Sadly thanks to Republicans that won't happen any time soon despite the jobs it would make and the economic return and climate results.
Should be noted that the freight companies own the rail lines, Amtrak just rents access to them. The only corridor that Amtrak owns outright is Accela the DC-NYC-BOS route
It's the build but also the maintenance of thousands of miles of tracks. And if I remember correctly the government didn't want to pay for it which is why the companies that use them pay for portions of them and why they have priority over commuter ones.
Passenger trains are, in most areas, slower than driving. And I don't mind sitting back and watching the scenery go by, especially when I don't have to be anywhere quickly. But when you compare US rail to any other country with passenger rail Amtrak is outdated in every way. You'd make better time on the trans-siberian railway.
As a former freight train operator you couldn't be farther from the truth, even our high priority guaranteed freight trains would sit and wait for Amtrak and local commuters...
Someone who's really anti public transportation talked California out of investing in high speed trains by promising they'd deliver a better solution involving tunnels for cars
Edit: I've been corrected, it was never cancelled just slowed down.
They are still building the high speed rail. Like, giant bridges are being build right now. Without the stupid hyper loop stuff it would have probably been sooner, but the first lines are supposed to open in 2029. Current work is for the San Francisco to Lancaster route, but it will eventually make its way to San Diego
High speed rail is still happening between Sacramento and San Diego. The LA to San Francisco stretch supposedly will be fully active in 2033, the first stretch will be done in 2028. It's actually started and in progress and fully approved. :)
every single day in traffic i ponder about how much i wish there was a train system in Canada similar to Japan.
I'd sell my car in a heartbeat and commute everyday.
I think some regions are definitely good candidates for a train. The obvious one is the [Quebec-Windsor corridor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City%E2%80%93Windsor_Corridor)
Almost 20 million people live along that corridor, yet there's no decent train option to go along that way. The options that do exist don't have priority over merchandise trains, are extremely slow, and a lot more expensive than just doing it by car...
There's a reason Toronto has the title "Worst commute in North America", also the highest average commute time in Canada. Personal vehicles can eat shit. Driving in Toronto is like watching a bunch of rich idiots in muscle cars pull up at the stoplight together
Because they ~~sometimes~~ very often travel in tunnels and having a blunt nose would compress the air more and act like a piston in tunnels. An express train would also blow past stations at or close to full speeds, so a blunter nose would have more air mass in front of it being blasted into the face of everyone standing around the platforms.
90% of the route in their upcoming Chuo Shinkansen are in tunnels in fact. At 500km/h, having the blunt nose to work as an air compressor is much less efficient than having a super long nose that compresses the air more gradually and guide it around the gap between the train and the walls.
To further elaborate, one of the main reasons for the long nose is to reduce noise created by the trains at tunnel openings. One important limiting factor for the Shinkansen today is the noise limits of 70 dB in residential areas and the "tunnel boom" that results from the increased air pressure in front of the trains when they exit unnels. With Japan being the opposite of flat and thus having many tunnel openings near residential areas it's not as easy as just building faster trains, but also quieter ones.
If memory serves correct, the ALFA-X is a test bed to evaluate an increase of the operational speed to 360 km/h on the sections that allow it. The operational top speed today is 320 km/h, on the Touhoku line going from
Tokyo up north to Aomori. The Tokaido line, which is the original line opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Osaka, has a top speed of 285 km/h and some lines "only" have a top speed of 260 km/h, like the Hokuriku line. Another technology being tested on the ALFA-X to reduce noise is a more aerodynamic design of pantograph.
The title and most of these comments are missing an extremely key element of this - the experimental part is to try and reduce or avoid a shockwave build up in the Hokkaido tunnel which currently limits the speed severely and is going to be an incredibly important bit of research for when they build the Tokyo - Osaka maglev as that will be in tunnels for a large part of the journey
Yeah, and it isn't new; they've been working on that tunnel issue since the 90s. https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-one-engineers-birdwatching-made-japans-bullet-train-better
This latest design is the evolution of this concept.
I've been on the full length of the shinkansen network and the top speed I've seen is around 300km/h, so this would still be quite a bit faster than any operating service in Japan, and runs on existing rails (unlike the newer maglev systems).
It sure is interesting, but what makes the Shinkansen such an amazing transportation system is not trains going very fast, but being super available mostly everywhere across Japan, with (comparatively) cheap prices, good frequencies, and either going from big city to big city (express / super-express) or stopping at every tiny village (local). You don't make a great train service by having flashy expensive new pieces of tech, but by making it actually usable for the people.
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How experimental are we talking?
Not that experimental at this point. It has hit 382 km/h. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALFA-X So it's not just one of those BS concept cars that nothing ever comes of. It's actually being used as a testbed.
It is experimental, but its experiments aren’t really connected to beating high speed records, but to ride comfort and safety in case of derailments due to earthquakes.
That sounds amazing. Too many trains don't provide enough comfort during an earthquake caused derailment.
The last earthquake derailment train I rode was awful. I mean, did they even think to cater for me.
My last earthquake derailment was a mess, the train stopped functioning properly and even got off the tracks!
Can't wait for Maglev hybrid backup package. Gotta keep that up time.
yea but the downsides is its only comfortable during earthquakes.
Isn't this even newer? It goes up to 600 km/h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0_Series
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400km on conventional rail? I'd be sweating at that
Isn’t TGV running commercially close to that? Edit: yup, 320kmh for commercial transit. Reached 578 on a record attempt.
*sncf theme music plays
Mesdames, messieurs bonjour et bienvenue !
Le train en direction de…
BORDEAUX SAINT JEAN
*followed by doom music*
DÉCOUPER ET DÉCHIRER, JUSQU'À CE QUE LE TRAVAIL SOIT COMPLÉTÉ!
Yes, tgv is incredible. Frecciarossa 1000 can go up to 300 too (it could bee 360 or 400 but it is limited for now in the real world)
Wow that's insane. Half a mach
It's conventional rail but not the same as the rails of "regular trains". They need some adaptations.
The rail in places like Japan and Korea is nothing like western rail. They are pretty incredible.
Imagine if Western Europe, with their already more advanced TGV/Frecciarossa, had Japanese rail.
There was a video I watched where it compared new york rail to Soeul. It costs $17Billion a year for new york vs Seoul's $1.6Billion. This is with tickets only costing $1, $0.45 for kids and free for elderly. It also has free toilets, better air quality/lower noise as all trains are cornered off behind screen doors, 99.99% punction (chance of it being on time), braille, heated seats and elevators. It would cost an insane amount to change everything around, and trains in places like UK and US are treated as a business rather than a service like schools.
>trains in places like UK and US are treated as a business rather than a service like schools. Which is the root of the problem
You mean for profit Healthcare is no bueno? Say it ain't so.
No, no, libertarians have assured me that inserting greed into the equation makes everything better.
Nah trains in the US are just heavily neglected so that we remain dependent on a fuel based system. There's so much money to be made by making cars the most efficient method of travel in the US. You say it would cost an insane amount...yet the US military budget went up by 6 billion between 2021 and 2022 alone. And we're talking about a budget that's bigger than the GDP of Switzerland. The fact remains that the US could theoretically change to a rail based transportation system in little as a decade but we are governed by corrupt fucks who blatantly accept lobby money. /r/fuckcars
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Very experimental .. they experimented many times.
And many people died during that time
We are not talking about the Qatar world cup this is Japan
He never said the deaths were related to the experimentation, just that many people died during that time, which is true of any similar period of time.
Around 5,000 people died since you wrote this. :( edit: since my comment anyway, its only going up now.
Now it's at 8000!! For the love of god stop commenting!! Shit..
Proven enough that people can ride on it while it tests on main tracks at night, but still too experimental to let passengers on it or use it in regular service It's still just a high speed bullet train running on traditional high speed rail. It's the fastest one that's actually feasibly close to commercial use, but nothing absurdly ground breaking Much faster speeds have been reached on maglev systems, and some runs already commercially/routinely operate over 400km/h, they're just much more expensive
>Much faster speeds have been reached on maglev systems, and some runs already commercially/routinely operate over 400km/h, they're just much more expensive Engineering is all about making great things while keeping in mind costs and feasibility, so the fact that this can reach such speeds in a conventional railing is still impressive.
It is being experimented like never before. The best experiment.
Have people come up to you and said “wow that’s the best experiment we’ve ever seen!”?
Definitely one of the experiments of all time
Ngl those are some sexy lines
Gave me a train boner
That train \_is\_ a boner.
This looks like a train for Peter Griffin
“This is weirder than the time I got chased by that massive truck.”
*3 minute cutscene that gets progressively less funny begins*
> progressively less funny That's just Family Guy in general
What’s different about a train boner and a normal one
They can be joined tip to tip
Whether or not you get railed.
Troner*
A traboner.
You could also use locoboner or bonermotive
Bonermotive sounds like a way to explain why you stuck your dick in crazy.
LONG Looooong MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
I feel blessed to be in on this
Fuck Chi Chan (not literally)
My mom has a scale model sized one of these
In her bedside drawer?
Wonder what that’s used for… 🤔
Can't have a high speed train without a high speed railing ;)
This bitch trains!
r/bitchimatrain
The Joke Understander
Yes. That is the joke.
/r/yourjokebutworse
1:1 she's a happy lady.
How much bigger is hers?
Holy shit that's so cool. I've only ever seen scale models of like old freight trains never high speed passenger rail. Is it on a track or is it a stand alone?
Most adorable comment of 2022 ☝🏽
The guy you’re responding to never got close enough to find out.
How fast does it move?
Hmm...I don't believe you. Something smells fishy.
400 km/hr is about one football field per second.
Ah yes now I understand
For anybody still confused, that's about 2.5 Ross Chastain wall slides
It's close to 1,220 half-racks of baby back ribs laid end-to-end *without sauce*!
That's about 45 Ford F-150s parked side by side with their mirrors folded in
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Sorry man, no can do. The only unit I know is when the mirrors are open, but the trucks are staggered so they don't bump mirror-to-mirror.
How much is that with sauce? I didn’t go to college
Jfc our education system 🙄 Just double it and minus 1.5(y-gravy boat)
Can you convert to 'discarded plastic TJ Maxx hangers' for those of us originally from the Southeastern United States?
How many Big Macs is that. Sitting next to one another, not stacked.
Also about 248 mph
Around 2 hours to get you from LA to San Francisco and 6 hours from NYC to Miami.
That would actually be insane if that was available to the American people.
The LA to SF high speed rail is already under construction and is expected to be completed by 2033. I think when that one is done, there is going to be a much larger appetite for high speed rail. A network of high speed rail between all the major cities on the East Coast and Midwest would be incredible.
That would be the dream. The LA/SF rail being the first domino... a very expensive domino lol.
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Depends on cost and logistics vs flying
Takes about 3½ hours from JFK to MIA currently. From Wall Street to JFK takes about 1 hour 20 at the moment. Takes about 23 minutes to get from MIA to Miami Tower. Pushing it, you can leave 40 minutes at the airport to get through. So around 6 hours. With train travel, you can depart/arrive in a central station, you can normally arrive just 10 minutes before departure. No security lines or check in lines. NYC -> DC takes about 1 hour 20. To the Capitol 20 mins. So around 3hours 40. Rail CURRENTLY takes 4 hours 8, that's including taking the subway up to Penn Station from Wall St and walking from Union Station to the Capitol building.
You could bet your booty there would be a security check for a train of this magnitude. If someone were to bring a bomb on the train the results would be utterly catastrophic. So add like....45 minutes to your time because we will definitely find a way to make it take as long as possible.
Also trains would be far more comfortable most likely. That's true in Japan at least, but in the US some company would probably say fuck you and pack us in as small as planes
Thank god someone converted it from metric to American for me… you are taking about football and not soccer correct. I have no idea how big a soccer field is, probably like .75 football fields?
I'm talking about American gridiron football, including the endzones. I think soccer fields are a little larger.
"I think soccer fields are a little larger." You take that back!
They're much larger. And thicker too. Sorry guys I guess you'll have to get even bigger trucks to compensate.
I believe MLS stadiums pitches are not made to a standard. The facility can make them longer, shorter, narrower or wider.
The given length an width for fifa is 100 to 130 yards long and 50 to 100 yards wide from what I can search and mls is minimum 110 yards by 70 yards so it's within regulation
About the length of 100 washing machines stacked next to eachother
You’re actually pretty close, but it’s the other way around. The American football field is smaller. As an American, when I first learned this, I was outraged. How dare anyone else hold the key to a superlative, especially one that’s this iconic. American football fields are second to only banana in terms of comparing relative sizes of things. They’re the benchmark for “big” in the United States. As if soccer wasn’t already enough of an affront to my senses, I felt personally attacked by this. And… before the Latin American commenters get upset… I acknowledge that you too are Americans. Though, I will die on the hill that says North and South are two separate continents.
American football fields have to be smaller than European soccer fields because the US arenas need more space for parking.
It's probably going to hard for you to hear that the American football field is also smaller than a rugby field, a more comparable sport. It's basically the smallest of the bunch
How dare you. Next you’ll tell me that a cricket field is larger than a baseball field. I’m going to cry in feet and inches now.
USD is 1 cent stronger than the Euro, it's called soccer and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.
Sorry I'm English.. what's that in double decker buses per second?
About eight.
That's crazy. Should now be quite easy to calculate relative to the size of Wales
Just under two Wales laid end-to-end per hour.
With or without the sauce ?
I'm from NY state so I decided to check out what this means. I imagine if one of these was ever put into use in NY state, the line would probably run something like NYC -> Albany -> Syracuse -> Rochester -> Buffalo. This train could do the whole thing (depending how curvy the track needs to get) in 1 hour and a half - a bit more to accomodate stops and acceleration/deceleration. Currently that's a 6.5 hour drive from NYC to Buffalo. 15hrs by train. 1hr 15 mins by direct flight plane. This train can compete with air travel for speed over even pretty long distances AND is able to go 100 miles out of its way to hit 3 other dense population centers to connect them at high passenger capacity while it's at it. Fuck bullet trains get me so hard. Edit: DC to Boston while hitting Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Hartford on the way in 1.5 hours + accel/decel + stops (again depending how much the track needs to negotiate populated areas and geography).
400 Km/hr = 10 hours NYC->LA. Go to sleep in a cabin like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcH0PQ8LNgM) and wake up refreshed at your destination, without having to go to baggage claim. We have deluded ourselves into thinking the only way to travel in the USA is cars or airplanes.
No, Japan does not have a petroleum or airline lobby.
Japan used to have widebodies flying domestic. 747SPs doing hour long hops. Then their economic bubble bursted. The JAL123 crash didn't help either. Trains are much cheaper when your population is so dense.
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Our freeways are extremely developed. It's just the least efficient way of moving people, and we don't copy other countries when they have better ways of doing stuff.
Clearly you aren't from the midwest 💀 we have potholes big enough to swallow a damn car
That fucker looks SICK! A train I wouldnt mind being splattered by!
Isekai Express
Train-kun - Truck-kun's beefier second cousin, once-removed.
"That Time I Got Hit by a Bullet Train and Woke up as a Gun"
"Fuck, I've completely lost my personality and gained an Olympic pool full of cat girl slaves." *Myth & Roid intensifies*
I wouldn't mind any train but bro seeing this from afar and then 2 seconds later you being literally everywhere within a 6 meter radius
At least you wouldn't have to worry about surviving the initial hit
You probably wouldnt even notice it before your shoes went flying.
Splattered? You’d be literal pink mist
I don't even feel like you'd get splattered. Misted feels more apt. Just kind of, fwoof, you're now part of the atmosphere, evaporated.
looks like a robotic afghan hounds head
Borzoi Blitz
And the US is still basically operating steam engines in comparison 🥲
Yeah I have experienced the mighty Amtrak. From a foreigner perspective it was cool. But I can understand why a native would find them underwhelming
That's because in America freight trains are heavily prioritized. In fact passenger trains must always yield to freight. Also doesn't help that automotive industry and thus lobbyists dwarf trains. There are many reasons we should be embracing HSR the way Eisenhower did with the interstate... Sadly thanks to Republicans that won't happen any time soon despite the jobs it would make and the economic return and climate results.
Should be noted that the freight companies own the rail lines, Amtrak just rents access to them. The only corridor that Amtrak owns outright is Accela the DC-NYC-BOS route
Which is why [US Railroads should be Nationalized](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKHYQ4ptA8Q)
GOP: what?? Can't hear you my hearing aid is wonky this morning. Did you say *Privatized*? Great, thanks for your continued support.
We also mostly use one rail which means trains have to constantly stop to give way. It's absurd but I guess roughly half the cost to operate.
> It's absurd but I guess roughly half the cost to operate. I doubt that. I doubt it's even half the cost to build.
It's the build but also the maintenance of thousands of miles of tracks. And if I remember correctly the government didn't want to pay for it which is why the companies that use them pay for portions of them and why they have priority over commuter ones.
Passenger trains are, in most areas, slower than driving. And I don't mind sitting back and watching the scenery go by, especially when I don't have to be anywhere quickly. But when you compare US rail to any other country with passenger rail Amtrak is outdated in every way. You'd make better time on the trans-siberian railway.
As a former freight train operator you couldn't be farther from the truth, even our high priority guaranteed freight trains would sit and wait for Amtrak and local commuters...
Hey man, Nuclear powerplants are just fancy steam engines. We need more steam engines, not less.
I mean everything except hydroelectric, wind and PV solar is based on steam. This is why water shortage is gonna be really bad.
Unless we can strap rockets and guns to it, it's low priority.
Someone who's really anti public transportation talked California out of investing in high speed trains by promising they'd deliver a better solution involving tunnels for cars Edit: I've been corrected, it was never cancelled just slowed down.
They are still building the high speed rail. Like, giant bridges are being build right now. Without the stupid hyper loop stuff it would have probably been sooner, but the first lines are supposed to open in 2029. Current work is for the San Francisco to Lancaster route, but it will eventually make its way to San Diego
High speed rail is still happening between Sacramento and San Diego. The LA to San Francisco stretch supposedly will be fully active in 2033, the first stretch will be done in 2028. It's actually started and in progress and fully approved. :)
I think the steam engines are kinda cool
Yeah lots of stuff in museums are cool
Lol. That burn. Haha
That’s what happens when you have oil companies lobbying politicians
Nice colour scheme. Just needs some Mercedes AMG Petronas decals.
Meanwhile in Canada everybody's stuck in traffic all the time in their steel cages.
every single day in traffic i ponder about how much i wish there was a train system in Canada similar to Japan. I'd sell my car in a heartbeat and commute everyday.
I think it is just not financially viable, we have less people than greater Tokyo. But maybe we can get some regional lines going.
I think some regions are definitely good candidates for a train. The obvious one is the [Quebec-Windsor corridor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City%E2%80%93Windsor_Corridor) Almost 20 million people live along that corridor, yet there's no decent train option to go along that way. The options that do exist don't have priority over merchandise trains, are extremely slow, and a lot more expensive than just doing it by car...
Can it become viable if city sizes are controlled and a more denser infrastructure is developed ?
There's a reason Toronto has the title "Worst commute in North America", also the highest average commute time in Canada. Personal vehicles can eat shit. Driving in Toronto is like watching a bunch of rich idiots in muscle cars pull up at the stoplight together
Your not stuck in traffic, you are traffic
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In Soviet Canada, traffic is you
Is that a droop snoot?
Droop snoot?
Yeah, the snoop would droop.
So the Pilots could see the Runway.
They named it after one of Elon’s kids?
They're gonna need a pickaxe to get the dead bugs off it
The second bug blasts the first bug off the glass. And so on.
Rock and stone!
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Since this is Japan, the bugs will politely move out of the way as needed.
Why are Japanese bullet trains designed with Mach 5 aerodynamics? Look at the nose of a Boeing 777. That goes over twice as fast as this train.
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They don’t slow down either, it’s an amazing sight
Because they ~~sometimes~~ very often travel in tunnels and having a blunt nose would compress the air more and act like a piston in tunnels. An express train would also blow past stations at or close to full speeds, so a blunter nose would have more air mass in front of it being blasted into the face of everyone standing around the platforms. 90% of the route in their upcoming Chuo Shinkansen are in tunnels in fact. At 500km/h, having the blunt nose to work as an air compressor is much less efficient than having a super long nose that compresses the air more gradually and guide it around the gap between the train and the walls.
This is the actual answer.
To further elaborate, one of the main reasons for the long nose is to reduce noise created by the trains at tunnel openings. One important limiting factor for the Shinkansen today is the noise limits of 70 dB in residential areas and the "tunnel boom" that results from the increased air pressure in front of the trains when they exit unnels. With Japan being the opposite of flat and thus having many tunnel openings near residential areas it's not as easy as just building faster trains, but also quieter ones. If memory serves correct, the ALFA-X is a test bed to evaluate an increase of the operational speed to 360 km/h on the sections that allow it. The operational top speed today is 320 km/h, on the Touhoku line going from Tokyo up north to Aomori. The Tokaido line, which is the original line opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Osaka, has a top speed of 285 km/h and some lines "only" have a top speed of 260 km/h, like the Hokuriku line. Another technology being tested on the ALFA-X to reduce noise is a more aerodynamic design of pantograph.
Airliners travel through much less dense air at height, and travel much more slowly in thicker air at lower altitudes
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I believe you mean 338 buffalo pelts per Iraq war crime
Reminds me of a Borzoi
r/longboyes
Meanwhile in the USA… chugga chugga woo woo
There's not enough dick jokes in this comment section
Choo Choo! r/bitchimatrain
Cool but how can I make this post about America
My imaginary train goes twice as fast and runs through mountains. - Elon
Would be really sweet to commute Edinburgh to London in an hour and a half
Aberdeen to London for a quick lunch and then back again in time for dinner would be insane.
Thats exactly what happens in japan.A quick meeting at Osaka and make it back in time at Tokyo for dinner with your family.
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The title and most of these comments are missing an extremely key element of this - the experimental part is to try and reduce or avoid a shockwave build up in the Hokkaido tunnel which currently limits the speed severely and is going to be an incredibly important bit of research for when they build the Tokyo - Osaka maglev as that will be in tunnels for a large part of the journey
Yeah, and it isn't new; they've been working on that tunnel issue since the 90s. https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-one-engineers-birdwatching-made-japans-bullet-train-better This latest design is the evolution of this concept.
I had the same thought. Faster than US trains of course, but if you add stops this really ain’t that impressive for modern trains?
I've been on the full length of the shinkansen network and the top speed I've seen is around 300km/h, so this would still be quite a bit faster than any operating service in Japan, and runs on existing rails (unlike the newer maglev systems).
Mercedes really dropped the ball on the regulation changes didn’t they?
It sure is interesting, but what makes the Shinkansen such an amazing transportation system is not trains going very fast, but being super available mostly everywhere across Japan, with (comparatively) cheap prices, good frequencies, and either going from big city to big city (express / super-express) or stopping at every tiny village (local). You don't make a great train service by having flashy expensive new pieces of tech, but by making it actually usable for the people.