Shanghai Maglev high speed train 431 km/h

[NismoGPC]

The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport can go this fast. :D

[agardebring]

@NismoGPC @nemesyo : The max speed for a maglev train is considerably higher than 431km/h, however for safety and comfort reasons they run them at 431 km/h. Compare that to the Bugatti Veyron, based on the antique and primitive principle of combustion engines driven by exploding dinosaur oil, which need to have a professional driver, a special driving course and costs a LOT to use and still extremely seldom is able to reach those high speeds. The maglev easily do it every single day.

[mikeygeneral]

Wish we had that in New York. Then i would definitly move to the burbs and spend way less money. But i have to stay in NYC for my job.

[agardebring]

@mikeygeneral : It will only work if the suburbs are dense enough though. You cannot setup a system like this within a car centred and sparse area of houses since the density will simply be to low for a station to be put there.

[efastMixer]

when was this filmed?

[datamata]

That train was hauling ass....I'm not a big chinese fan, but that train was really kicking ass.......

[sharpanator]

i hope the chinese dont copy this train and sell it for their own good, why Merkel allowed this to sell to china?

[Pyromaniac721]

If you put that train in a depressurized tunnel, it can go at least 1,600 km/h. Unfortunately, vacuums trains only exist on paper for now, but the airlines here in the US will be really pissed off when all the coast-to-coast flights are being undercut by floating trains lol.

[myseethers]

feel like on jet just above the land... that goes really fast !

[aviomaster]

Production and savings = power

[bagelboi66]

For over a billion people, their expressways and roads are really not at all crowded.

[nemesyo]

431km/h is Comercial o max speed?

[agardebring]

Commercial

[nemesyo]

WOW NICE

[sanwichmixto]

I think that the best high speed trains are spanish ones. They are very comfortable with avanced technology and they run at 350 km/h. I would like see them one day in america. They are fantastic!!!

[ElPonyProductions]

if my mind does not fail to me, some of the Spanish trains are Siemens (ICE-3 of DB), German technology

[sharpanator]

those are german traines from siemens ICE Velaro E, like ICE Velaro Rus for the russian market and ICE Velaro D for the own country. Germany have the ICE and Maglev and france the TGV, i think those are the 3 best trains in europe.

[artur4467]

@sanwichmixto we are making a high speed train here in brazil between sao paulo and rio de janeiro

[tongtech]

China amazing progress. that makes USA underdog.

[zenrising]

Well done. That is the single most lame comment on youtube. It makes no sense whatsoever. I hope the people who maintain this train have brains a little larger than yours.

[sinkingmaru321]

zenbaren ! Check yourself in a mirror ! Show us your Maglev ! This is not arguable ! tongtech is right !

USA spending way too much on wars and destruction even under a financial crisis of your own.

You, a nation heavily in debt, bag around to make the ends meet. Shamelessly asking for mercy and call your benevolent 'lame'? 'no sense'? 'brain"?

Where is yours ? ! They are using the more advanced technology. Do you have the brain to make one ? You moron !

Shumuck zen ! you can't jealous

[zenrising]

This is the most poorly written comment on youtube. It makes even less sense than the first.

I'm not even American.

But you are right - I certainly cannot jealous. I am not sure that even Chairman Mao himself could jealous.

Your comments are the definative sign that China has a long, long way to go before it approaches first world standards.

And yes I checked myself in a mirror. It seems I do in fact still have bodily form. It was reassuring to discover.

Your engrish very bad much poorly.

[mk3stargazer]

Oh zen,, you really are the lamest person on youtube, how we ROFL at you,, not with you,,, AT you

[zenrising]

Unloved creature

[SuperGnaget1891]

human rights?

[bartjebeltegoed]

Both China and the USA aren't really respecting human rights. They both have still a long way to go...

[antVally]

LOL

[TheEagle1]

with German technology

[G45991]

I'd liket o drive it cause i'm having troubble flying and i get used riding that fast maybe it wont be so scary starting of flying

[jrdn7730]

Imagine if one of those windows broke open.. O.o

[underverser]

In Sjanghai they seem to understand what real infrastructure is.. They do well there..

[MrManganese]

They'll never get the kind of return on investment from that train, that we've gotten on our American highway system.

[agardebring]

Ah yes. Exploding dinosaur oil. That is the future! ;) I think it's very very vital indeed that the United States start to invest in high speed trains. Just look at the massive amounts the wars to keep the oil supply are costing. Bundle that with rising gas costs and the enviromental issues and you have one big problem on your hand.

It's true that Maglev is very expensive. High speed rail, like they have in Japan, South Korean, France and Germany however pays for itself.

[MrManganese]

Exploding dinosaur oil.. that cracked me up :D Thanks. Anybody with more than two neural synapses firing knows that the future is in alternative energies. That doesn't change the fact that fancy high-tech and hugely expensive trains are a poor return on investment. When it comes right down to it, people just don't really need to be able to move that quickly.

[agardebring]

Well, whether people need to move that quickly or not is an issue for debate. We have airplanes don't we? :) But yes, maglev is as of yet to expensive for any big deployment. High speed rail on conventional tracks is the way to go in most cases. It looks like my home country of Sweden might invest in true high speed rail in the future (300kp/h+) so then the US should be able to do that as well :)

[mistersmith6000]

Mn, maglev a show, but generally in respect to trains, remember that loss making train lines and services in urban and semi-rural areas create all kinds of spin-off benefits that highways and cars can't. These generate higher value, low CO2 living around the lines and stations which are reflected in the high real-estate near the lines and not, unjustly, in the pockets of the investor or operator of the train. Therefore, talking down trains and talking up highway and drive lifestyles isn't good.

[mistersmith6000]

Another thing about Maglev I just read; cut the power and you might have an instant catastrophe.

[vikingvic]

@mistersmith6000 you really think they would let the train go if that was the case...?

[theagent3]

@MrManganese LOL stuck in the past and brainwashed by the US automobile and the Oil companies. High speed rain is the way of the future, clean fast transportation.  People here in the US dont know any better.

[ValeyXu]

Hey Kids,don't stick your head out the window.

[Keithstephenwillough]

That is one fast train. What station were you travelling from, to were?

Cool video

[agardebring]

It's between the airport and the city. There are only those stations at the moment but they are planning an extension.

[VooDooEf]

nice, wanna drive in that 1 too