Record-smashing Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 mph and could someday outpace a plane
Record-smashing Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 mph and could someday outpace a plane
The T-Flight is a maglev train that hit a record-breaking speed of 387 mph on a short test track — but engineers want to double that rate so the train can carry passengers at speeds faster than if they were traveling by plane.
but at what a cost of the average Car CEO earnings?
They already have all the high-speed rail you could want so might as well do something new ig
It mostly seems like a flex to me, if they can build this then it shows how advanced technologically China has become. This is the tech that US hyped up, but was never actually able to make it work. China putting this into practice would be a clear sign that China outpaced US technologically.
So they are making a hyperloop? As in, low pressure speed train? Why?
China already has high saturation of regular high speed rail, and I'm guessing this would supplement that potential for long distance travel. It mostly seems like flex to me, if they can build this then it shows how advanced technologically China has become. This is the tech that US hyped up, but was never actually able to make it work. China putting this into practice would be a clear sign that China outpaced US technologically.
It would be cool if they could build something like this between major cities as a replacement for aircraft but that seems like it would be prohibitively expensive and difficult with current technology. Maybe in the distant future. It's still a neat demonstration I guess, but I believe in the supremacy of the steel rail and steel wheel.
I'd personally opt for something more "conventional", like the SCMaglev being developed in Japan (or better yet, that Chengdu Maglev prototype). As fast as this train would go inside a vacuum tube, the tube itself will just add much more complexities and points of failure, on top of being more expensive to build/maintain.
Also a large part of the "experience" is also being to watch the scenery pass by at 300-600km/h+ out of the window, which is lost when inside of a very long concrete/steel tube.
