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> Risk of derailment is also not to be taken lightly, as demonstrated by several recent fatal train accidents. Interesting. No comment on the potential outco
by yid 13y ago
> Risk of derailment is also not
to be taken lightly, as demonstrated by several recent fatal train accidents.
Interesting. No comment on the potential outcome of a passenger-filled capsule being ejected from a burst tube on high pylons at 350mph.
- tfgg 13y agoAlso, I wonder what HSR incidents he's referring to. The Spanish relatively low-speed human error crash? Systems like Japan's Shinkansen have never had a fatal accident, despite operating at the edge of technology for 50 years. I don't think a derailing accident is at all likely on a modern system like California's plan or the UK's HS2.
- hussong 13y agoCheck out Eschede.
- marshray 13y agoIf the tube bursts so wide that the capsule could be ejected from it, the inrush of air would likely be so great that capsules probably wouldn't even make it out. The bigger concern would be that they could decelerate too quickly.