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Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record
shmG writes "A new high-speed train linking Chinese cities Shanghai and Hangzhou has set a fresh world record for train speed at 416.6 kilometers per hour (259 mph) on its trial run on Tuesday. The train is expected to cut the travel time by half, to 40 minutes for covering a distance of 202 kilometers between the two cities at an average speed of 350 kilometers per hour. 'The new record of 416.6 km per hour shows that China has achieved a new milestone in high-speed train technologies,' Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer of the Ministry of Railways, was quoted as saying."
So all roads in the US are toll roads? ... or it's OK for the state to cough up for roads, but not for train tracks?
The phrase "European/Chinese economic system" makes no sense. European economies are extremely different from the Chinese.
Unlike what some may believe, there aren't only two economic systems, the US Capitalist and the Other. Even if both the European and the Chinese invest more public money in infrastructure than the US (do they?), it doesn't mean they have a similar system.
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This is only a test. Wait until it is in operation free of trouble and come back again.
If memory serves, Japan's Shinkansen has had only one accident (while braking during a very strong earthquake in 2006), and no dead people in how many years of operation now - maybe 40, maybe more.
Wake me up when the Chinese beat that record.
There was a joke during the early days of the space race where an American says to a Russian "Our German rocket-scientists are better than your German rocket-scientists".
It seems that in the race for the fastest train this has been replaced by "Our German rail-engineers are better than your German rail-engineers".
Yes, you're absolutely right. I was translating for occidental type people, and trying to avoid the dumb jokes some people on this website come out with.
Rugs are occidental, people like movies, are Western.
Wait, now we are also getting touchy about what oriental-type people call us?
And taking an airplane between cities leaves you stranded at the airport, right?
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.