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Electric, steel-wheeled trains are already limited by passenger comfort in acceleration and deceleration. Making a trainset that accelerates and decelerates mo
by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Electric, steel-wheeled trains are already limited by passenger comfort in acceleration and deceleration. Making a trainset that accelerates and decelerates more quickly is a non-problem that nobody wants to solve.
- melling 10y agoOk. Why is China building low-speed maglevs in Beijing and not using buses and high-speed rail? They have over 10,000 miles of hsr?
- honkhonkpants 10y agoBeats me. There are reasons to build low-speed maglevs on sites where wheeled trains don't work well. For example a maglev can climb steeper grades, and you can run them right through dense urban areas where noise might be an issue.