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You're making the assumption that speed causes accidents. It does not, or bullet trains would be crashing left and right. Lack of perception causes accidents, s

by RyanZAG 13y ago

You're making the assumption that speed causes accidents. It does not, or bullet trains would be crashing left and right. Lack of perception causes accidents, such as road designs where cars can make sudden turns with no additional lanes, lack of fences along roads near wildlife, etc. Freeways usually have the lowest number of accidents per mile driven despite far higher speed.

aestra 13y ago
Where's your citations for your statements? You can't go making up facts without backing them up. Bullet trains travel on a track, they do not travel freely with other bullet trains in crowded roadways. Pretty much anyone with a pulse can get a driver's licence and many people don't take driving seriously as "I am putting my life and other's at risk when I step into my car." Most people don't own a bullet train. The comparison is useless. Plus speeding trains do kill when they go past the posted speed limit, which is posted for safety reasons, example: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/nyregion/metro-north-train-accident-bronx.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/nyregion/metro-north-train... - by the way that train crashed on a Sunday, if it was a weekday there would have been hundreds dead as it is a major commuter line. Instead there was only 4 dead. Here's some research that says speeding contributes to crashes. However, a car travelling much faster than the rest of the cars on the road are the most dangerous. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000145759800058X http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457598... http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=712279 http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=712279 http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/DriverSafety/Pages/Speeding.aspx http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/DriverSafety/Pages/Speeding.a... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457505001247 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457505... We have a problem when people post random speed limits without actually studying and taking into consideration safety. Bullet trains are designed to go fast safely. When the parent talked about speeding they were talking about going past the posted speed limit, which for argument we will assume was posted for safety considerations. Of course, the faster one is travelling if there is an accident, the more deadly the accident becomes. This is simple physics. Bullet trains also have a speed limit, just a much higher one, and I don't know if they are physically built to travel past the safe max speed.

by RyanZAG 13y ago

aestra 13y ago

Where's your citations for your statements? You can't go making up facts without backing them up. Bullet trains travel on a track, they do not travel freely with other bullet trains in crowded roadways. Pretty much anyone with a pulse can get a driver's licence and many people don't take driving seriously as "I am putting my life and other's at risk when I step into my car." Most people don't own a bullet train. The comparison is useless. Plus speeding trains do kill when they go past the posted speed limit, which is posted for safety reasons, example: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/nyregion/metro-north-train-accident-bronx.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/nyregion/metro-north-train... - by the way that train crashed on a Sunday, if it was a weekday there would have been hundreds dead as it is a major commuter line. Instead there was only 4 dead. Here's some research that says speeding contributes to crashes. However, a car travelling much faster than the rest of the cars on the road are the most dangerous. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000145759800058X http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457598... http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=712279 http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=712279 http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/DriverSafety/Pages/Speeding.aspx http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/DriverSafety/Pages/Speeding.a... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457505001247 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457505... We have a problem when people post random speed limits without actually studying and taking into consideration safety. Bullet trains are designed to go fast safely. When the parent talked about speeding they were talking about going past the posted speed limit, which for argument we will assume was posted for safety considerations. Of course, the faster one is travelling if there is an accident, the more deadly the accident becomes. This is simple physics. Bullet trains also have a speed limit, just a much higher one, and I don't know if they are physically built to travel past the safe max speed.