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Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-it-a-train-or-a-low-flying-plane dept.

angkor writes "Riding the world's fastest train @ 500 kph - some lucky people got a chance to ride on this experimental train. The Japan Times has the story." I like the part where the wheels retract as it starts picking up speed, with the train floating 10cm over the tracks. If only the California high-speed rail system was up and running.

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  1. Shame, really... by Perianwyr+Stormcrow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It'll be forever before we have such a lovely thing in the US, with our collective allergy to mass transit...

    The rest of the world has the right of it, I think, sometimes.

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    What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey