China unveils 600 kph maglev train - state media

Reuters ^ | July 20, 2021 | Reuters

[entropy12]

BEIJING, July 20 (Reuters) - China unveiled a maglev train capable of a top speed of 600 kph on Tuesday, state media said.

The maximum speed would make the train, self-developed by China and manufactured in the coastal city of Qingdao, the fastest ground vehicle globally.

Using electro-magnetic force, the maglev train "levitates" above the track with no contact between body and rail.

[Cold Heart]

Is that why it’s called a bullet train?

[Seruzawa]

Yes. Especially a Chinese train. Not a chance in hell.

[married21]

It looks very cool. I am jealous. I live in CA, home of the incomplete, over budget, train to nowhere.

[Bernard]

If I put a penny on the track before the train comes through, will the train flatten the penny into a souvenir or derail?

[John S Mosby]

Hah,, auto correct! Well he alread HAS an organism now— it’s called a brain worm which has taken a good part of what was left of his temporal lobe after his surgery, leaving half of a really stupid brain in a really stupid and now demented pudding finger sucker.

But yeah— amtrak-— at any speed is NOT the ticket for a country of this size, and which removes personal movement freedoms forcing all but the elite into public transport. So, uh algore can redesign the urban and the suburban areas to include Section 8 urban street apes people moved to suburbs to remove the threat to their families.

[George from New England]

Why is it on these videos when i click to pause and look at a stopped frame, damn youtube shoves other crap in my face.

So noway to start/stop anymore boobtube ??

[Macoozie]

600 KPH ChiCom train? Big Whoop.

Bezos just went 2,300 MPH straight up in a giant dildo.

now THAT is impressive.

[dfwgator]

As a proponent of coast to coast Amtrak, I bet our current occupant of the white house will have an organism as he sends his lionel model train set spinning around the office while thinking of this.

LOL, what about our own Willie Green?

[BubbaJunebug]

up to speed quickly...only 2 stations (one in town and one at the airport.)

[Yo-Yo]

Hasn’t anyone noticed the tiremarks on the concrete? How can a maglev have tiremarks

BS....

Maglev trains have landing wheels in case the power is suddenly cut, and to maneuver slowly at terminals and yards.

[RatRipper]

Oh, I missed the Kph. The answer is STILL “No way”!!!!

[fireman15]

In other news... Cheap flying cars are close to coming to market. Make sure and turn the sound on in the video.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1417014562197434371

[PIF]

Only those with the right social credit score can ride.

[PIF]

Speed 600 Kilometer per hour = 372.823 Miles per hour
Formula for an approximate result, divide the speed value by 1.609

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now subtract appropriate times for each station stop; at least in the US, the end result would be as fast or slower than driving.

[Muty2002]

Don’t forget the new one they came up with.

[Wuli]

Ground, fixed path transportation is no more than modified old technology. Air cars will supplant the need for “high speed” rail; and they will also massively reduce the need for major public “infrastructure” investment. Some highways will be replaced by “fly over parkways” serving the public on the ground and in the air.

[Vaduz]

Wouldn’t want to be in that thing when a 6.6 quake hits and the do often there.

[shotgun]

Is this the same Chinese that can’t get the reverse engineering down by copying Russian made jet fighter engines?

[sevlex]

Am I the only one here who thinks that pic is fake?

[Moltke]

Mostly purchased and stolen from the Japanese. Japan’s Transfer of Bullet Train Technology A Mistake. China, Of Course, Has Copied It

No, the JP Bullet Trains run on regular rails.

This is the German Transrapid, which Germany was too cheap to deploy in-country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid