Yeah this is an improvement of the Transrapid maglev china bought from Germany about 20 years ago. I don't think Japan uses any maglev trains, they've got the Shinkansen for highspeed rail transport. Same reason Germany didn't continue the Transrapid project and sold it off, there's already the ICE highspeed rail that doesn't require an entirely seperate, super-expensive track system. So the outside research China built this on is basically 1980s abandonware. Maglev is only reallly viable on a few very specific routes. It will find its uses in China, but it isn't competitive in countries that actively fight against their rail infrastructure.
tl;dr: this dude guessing it is based on Japanese tech seems highly influenced by :reddit-logo: racism where only Japan is allowed to be more advanced than the USA and all Chinese products are 100% knockoffs.
That's almost correct. Japan is currently building the Chuo Shinkansen, a maglev shinkansen with a top speed of 505km/h. It's being built as a relief line for the Tokaido Shinkansen, the first high speed line in the world and a very busy one at that.
Yeah this is an improvement of the Transrapid maglev china bought from Germany about 20 years ago. I don't think Japan uses any maglev trains, they've got the Shinkansen for highspeed rail transport. Same reason Germany didn't continue the Transrapid project and sold it off, there's already the ICE highspeed rail that doesn't require an entirely seperate, super-expensive track system. So the outside research China built this on is basically 1980s abandonware. Maglev is only reallly viable on a few very specific routes. It will find its uses in China, but it isn't competitive in countries that actively fight against their rail infrastructure.
tl;dr: this dude guessing it is based on Japanese tech seems highly influenced by :reddit-logo: racism where only Japan is allowed to be more advanced than the USA and all Chinese products are 100% knockoffs.
That's almost correct. Japan is currently building the Chuo Shinkansen, a maglev shinkansen with a top speed of 505km/h. It's being built as a relief line for the Tokaido Shinkansen, the first high speed line in the world and a very busy one at that.
i actually counted on somebody on here knowing more about the Shinkansen than me lol
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I believe it services 500k people a day, hell yeah!
fuck that's so goddamn fast
can we steal it too?