> We haven't invented a new form of transport since the Second World War It depends on what you mean why "new." Trains existed before WWII, but high-speed trai

> We haven't invented a new form of transport since the Second World War It depends on what you mean why "new." Trains existed before WWII, but high-speed trains only began to be deployed in the 1960s, with the Japanese Shinkansen. Modern high-speed trains are more than twice as fast as the fastest WWII-era trains. * The American Morning Hiawatha ran at a top speed of 160 km/h in 1939. * The Japanese Shinkansen ran at a top speed of 210 km/h in 1961. * The French TGV reached 300 km/h in 1995. * The Chinese Fuxing trains have been running commercial service at up to 350 km/h since 2018.