Not to be left behind, the west invests in an even faster next-gen train codenamed “snowpiercer.”
Taller, more aggressively-styled SUVs with poorer visibility is the best we can do
I swear to god, if the west can’t get their shit together real fast I’m going to have to start learning some mandarin
Or go to France…
Learning mandarin seems the better option then…
To each their own I guess 🤷🏼♀️
Or go to Spain or Germany, or Italy. They all have high speed trains (300-320 km/h commercial). , Spain has the largest high-speed network in Europe.
It’s a good bet regardless
Lots of good cinema and books in Mandarin. And you don’t need to dig through all the AI Slop filling up the English language outlets.
AI writes in all languages. Also mandarin.
It might add a little flavor, maybe a little color. Better set those softmax settings to deterministic.
The US is set to unveil their high speed competitor soon with a train called the “American Superior.” It is stated to have a top speed of 80km/h and will launch on a single 10km track by the year 2083.
At a cost of 185 billion dollars. CEO is paid 109 million annually, and there’s a board of 126 directors
“Always bet on bullshit.” -Wesley Snipes, probably
As someone who frequently uses Japan’s bullet trains, that max speed is cool, but also of limited value since trains tend to stop in places. There are some areas, moreso in china that Japan, where that might make sense, but even if your train doesn’t stop at all stations, you’re still behind the ones that do until a track split to allow passing.
Isn’t scheduling able to mitigate issues like that? It helps a lot that Shinkansens are pretty much always on time. Can’t wait for the Chuo to open eventually though.
You’ve already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there’s only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it’s also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.
