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i was excited about maglevs at first but not now and i dont reccomend it for european countries or even the US becausei ts too dangerous...its not about technology its about saftey...so i dont recommend it.
Are you F***ing kidding me? ever heard of Amtrak? they operate over 21,000 miles of passenger rail in the US. It doesn't matter if they've never seen trains, it's not an ordinary train so they should know that something levitating probably isn't going to send violent tremors through the surface of the earth. I'm an American and even i think that the majority of the US population is incredibly ignorant.
OOOH OMG! 21,000 MILES! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! WOW! Too bad theirs 3,537,441sq miles in the US. Thats like a RR every 169 Miles at their closest and thats mainly the NE. You must be some buff to know how many miles Amtrack operates. Besides Maglev is a worlds first. Maybe they didnt know, ever think of that?
If you say that now than you are contradicting your earlier words. "Well America doesnt have trains"....what the hell man? I'm a bit thrown by your reasoning.
Yeah, tell that to a population wanting to use the high speed rail....once you get to a city, you can just use the sidewalks, becuase American cities are only getting more compact, hahaha
oh I'm sorry. so i guess the only forms of transport you would know are Chevy and Dodge pickups, and maybe a lockhead missiles. It may be the third largest but it's not actually a single city, it's made up of 12 counties yes? it's only in something like the top 43rd for population globally .
That is why I said US not global. No its not considered 12 counties by the locals. More like.. Tarrant, Dallas, Parker, Rockwall, Collin, Denton, Hood and Johnson and another i cant remember the name of. but not 12. And yes actually I drive a Dodge Nitro, My bro drives a Dodge Ram 1500 so does my dad. No not real big on Chevy or Ford though. Lockhead AKA General Dynamics.
Yeah, magnets can't make vibration, especially not when in the presence of large amounts of electric current! After all, I'm only *imagining* the vibrations I feel coming out of that 15 inch subwoofer...
There will be a substantial force transfered from the magnets to the ground; nothing is perfectly damped. But yeah, the air noise would be more significant at most locations.
Those "loud Americans" didn't sound very loud to me, but I'm a loud American myself. That's an amazing train. They need one from Seattle to San Diego.
Disadvantages of the Japanese technology are the high costs, the high technological expenditure for the high-temperature superconductors and the extreme magnetic fields inside the vehicles (1000 times higher than in german Transrapid). Forbidden for passengers: Cardiac pacemaker. Problems for handy-phones and memory cards). Additionally, the unregulated levitation system of the Chuo Shinkansen means much less comfort.
Darkpredatorx: No sir, japanese maglevs are not more advanced -- to the contrary. They need wheels (!) up to speeds of 150 km/h! Beside of this they still need a long time for development to reach the point of commercial use. Maglevs needs a extremely long time for testing. The Transrapid is also able to go speeds over 500 km/h if needed.
Yes, but the transrapid-accident was just a stupid mistake of an construction worker which can also happen in every airport, normal railway or even at a highway. As it was only a test-track they didn't install the same security-device as on a commercial track.
While Japanese are still developing the german transrapid in China is daily routine since years. It does not need wheels to start and is much more matured. Transrapid offers trains in each speed-segment, it could be risen up over 600 km/h, it depends of customer wishs. Between test-trains and series-production readiness can be decades. In Shanghai there is no test-train, the daily-routine-future is present, Japanese are presently still working for it's future.
Hi German, but your talking are wrong. Japanese Maglev tecnology is more advanced and the first time, Chinese goverment asked Japanese goverment to sell our Maglev, but one of our politician STRONGLY OPPOSED to sell our tecnology, cause they would use our tecnology in their militaly. so they nextly asked German goverment.
Not especially, since it actually runs very smoothly! But it was coming out of the tunnel so there was definitely a moment of roaring noise before it went by.
True and I'm a Amrican. I don't care if a contrey got tooken over by Hitler some 70 or so years ago, hes dead now and now I can enjoy old WW2 cartoons on Youtube that got banned for some reason
Germanys trains are crap, they have no idea of how to run a train system, ive been there and i have know the facts! Japan has the best trains in the world!
As the title is written on top of the video, "Japanese Maglev train", NOT german maglev, british maglev, chinese maglev or american maglev. Why cant people just see great things and admire it instead of getting jealous and talking a whole load of bull****!
You people are like a bunch of children. Who cares who invented what. I'm American and I don't understand why we always have to go starting crap with everyone. Germany, Japan, and England are all f'in cool. Let's try an make some friends instead of making everyone hate us.
fuck you the british didnt invent shit. the germans invented it in 1934. hermann kemper did that. you british claim to have invented everything and yet you didnt invent anything.
not racist just the facts. cue germany and genocide in googe. enjoy. sorry to burst your bubble hans. by the way germany does not have all the prowess you belive. cue the ice train in germany that flew off the rails OMFG!!! LOL sorry OWNED.
germany has had two train crashs in its history. thats really not too much. and our trains are always on time. the brits dont have any fast trains and they are still fucking late.
the fastest train in england is in fact a french train. how embarrassing is that you fucker?
1 our trains are not the fastest because we do not need them to be, and the ones that need to be fast are. what you have to take into consideration is that our railways were ot designed for high speed trains, we have adapted to what we have. rather than replacing everything. btw, many british train crashes have been caused by vandals.
haha you artard. that was hundreds of years ago.oh my your dumn.yer all british people go around with their white wigs lol and their quills.i bet what ever country your from is 100 times worse especially germany or america
ha ha lol no i cant belive you just said that. although ofcourse germany is different now but you cant forget your history even though germany would never do something like that now
nice try, we invented the maglev, the scramjet, and we scots invented: the kaleidoscope, the paint pigment, carpet cleaners, the US navy, adhesive postage stamps, hypodermic needles, anaesthetics, golf, paraffin, radar, hollow pipe drainage, breech-loading rifles, etc. so shove that up your uptight german ass.
You're referring to a legitimate business transaction implementing a Transrapid system from Shanghai to Pudong Iternational Airport, first set up in 2002 and began regular service in March of 2004. However, it wasn't the commercial success that had been anticipated, and expansions on Chinese maglev lines may potentially use Japanese shinkansen (instead of the Siemens-produced maglev already in place).
yes i hope they buy the shinkansen instead and stop copying our transrapid. the chinese are the biggest copycats in the world, fuck all the communists.
Not quite - Transrapid (Seimens + ThyssenKrupp) have built the world's first commercial Maglev in Shanghai, it connects Podung Airport with the Long Yang Road metro station (31 km, 430 km/h). They haven't "stolen" anything - hats off to the Chinese for having the balls to be the first to invest in tomorrow's transportation!
what the f*** was that?? just crazy
Yotta1983 10 months ago
im waiting for a mach 1 train
detibry 1 year ago
Thanks to this video, that shit was ass. smh.
Nekosys 1 year ago
@Nekosys lol
kyoobaze 1 year ago
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因為我認為這是非常接近,可以殺死人擔心
natalyvidal1 1 year ago
wow that was Dangerous at 0:47
sideslide23 2 years ago
思ったよりも騒音が少ないですね、もっとうるさいと思ってました。
19750726 2 years ago
skip to 0:45 its just a buncha people talking
TrainGuy247 2 years ago 5
Whats up with these kids!
mouzouki 2 years ago
schnell!
vonTreffenfeld 2 years ago
Wow thanks for this 40 second clip of a fence, really interesting.
flamingdog76 2 years ago
wow gd vid
itfcsam 3 years ago
Cool video. And being a loud american, I dont mind at all. :D
zilfondel 3 years ago
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"it's like King Kong or some shit"
It's a shame some Americans never will be slaves.
bluecobalt27 3 years ago
if u hear the train coming, dont blink! if u do the train may have passed you already!
sammydenyc 3 years ago 7
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and this is why asians eyes always squint (not trying to be racist, sry if you take this the wrong way)
saltydirect 3 years ago
sorry, cant see how you aren't being racist
SubzeroFusion 3 years ago 2
oh i am so sorry my kid brother went on my account when i was out, a big apology to everyone this offended, im really sorry
saltydirect 3 years ago
lol we'll take your word for it
Rikushix 3 years ago
thanks, my deepest apologies for anyone who was offended, he has been punished
saltydirect 3 years ago
id love to ride one of those
PossessedDonutz 3 years ago
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i was excited about maglevs at first but not now and i dont reccomend it for european countries or even the US becausei ts too dangerous...its not about technology its about saftey...so i dont recommend it.
bubbaUK 3 years ago
dangerous? how so? and why are maglevs dangerous and not conventional high-speed trains?
britoca 3 years ago 4
Maglevs can't crash or drive of the rails.
Didn't you know?
roskildahphreak 3 years ago 3
Except when there's a maintenance vehicle on the track...
AndrooUK 3 years ago
Silence, you!! :P
roskildahphreak 3 years ago
course, adrenaline in England is just at 5 at tea's time!!!
pessoacousin 3 years ago
u can only see the train 1 seconds XD is freaking fast
beatbox1010 3 years ago 3
well still a testing platform.. only working maglev is in China shanghai! :)
oki81 3 years ago
door komst van magneettrein
gertgertgert18 4 years ago
holy crap, that is fast!!!
robgr45 4 years ago 2
this is only playing 3 seconds of it! is it my computer? how do i watch the whole thing???
robgr45 4 years ago
never mind, i got it! :D heh, heh.
robgr45 4 years ago
stupid american. it wouldn't make any vibration. it's a maglev.
kumatador 4 years ago
Well America doesnt have trains, I personally have never seen a passenger train so shut up. They are not stupid just never had the chance to see one.
zmass 4 years ago
Are you F***ing kidding me? ever heard of Amtrak? they operate over 21,000 miles of passenger rail in the US. It doesn't matter if they've never seen trains, it's not an ordinary train so they should know that something levitating probably isn't going to send violent tremors through the surface of the earth. I'm an American and even i think that the majority of the US population is incredibly ignorant.
kumatador 4 years ago
OOOH OMG! 21,000 MILES! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! WOW! Too bad theirs 3,537,441sq miles in the US. Thats like a RR every 169 Miles at their closest and thats mainly the NE. You must be some buff to know how many miles Amtrack operates. Besides Maglev is a worlds first. Maybe they didnt know, ever think of that?
zmass 4 years ago
If you say that now than you are contradicting your earlier words. "Well America doesnt have trains"....what the hell man? I'm a bit thrown by your reasoning.
kumatador 4 years ago
Ever heard of sarcasm?
And no Americans do NOT USE trains for transportation like Europe and Asia.
zmass 4 years ago
i don't know about sarcasm, but i agree that americans don't use trains the same way as they do across seas. it's a shame.
kumatador 4 years ago
Yea it would solve A LOT of our problems if we actually built some.
Its at least an hour commute each way for the majority of America.. could you imagine how much shorter it would be if we had trains??
zmass 4 years ago
some Americano even steal the RAIL or other valuable matirials to make their own living so there is only Grayhound bus. Am I right?LOL
gajaroma 4 years ago
It wouldn't solve anything, our cities arn't pedestrain friendly enought
Davidmac08 3 years ago
Only places you see sidewalks are in CENTRAL Down Town and thats it... your right.
zmass 3 years ago
Yeah, tell that to a population wanting to use the high speed rail....once you get to a city, you can just use the sidewalks, becuase American cities are only getting more compact, hahaha
Davidmac08 3 years ago
europe has a good rain system
JUKIO01 4 years ago
what
N1trostyle 3 years ago
i meant train
JUKIO01 3 years ago
And yet still the wealthiest country on Earth.
And you live here...naaaanaaaneeenahnah!!
Davidmac08 3 years ago
Do you live in a desserted area or something. How can America not have trains.
America has trains but they suck!
They run like molasses.
xXd6y8j4Xx 4 years ago
90% of Americas trains are freight not passenger.
Thats why i said i have never seen a PASSENGER train. Actually i live in the third largest urban area in the US.
The DFW Metroplex
zmass 4 years ago
oh I'm sorry. so i guess the only forms of transport you would know are Chevy and Dodge pickups, and maybe a lockhead missiles. It may be the third largest but it's not actually a single city, it's made up of 12 counties yes? it's only in something like the top 43rd for population globally .
kumatador 4 years ago
That is why I said US not global. No its not considered 12 counties by the locals. More like.. Tarrant, Dallas, Parker, Rockwall, Collin, Denton, Hood and Johnson and another i cant remember the name of. but not 12. And yes actually I drive a Dodge Nitro, My bro drives a Dodge Ram 1500 so does my dad. No not real big on Chevy or Ford though. Lockhead AKA General Dynamics.
zmass 4 years ago
it's all about the hilux.
kumatador 4 years ago
Is that a little Toyota?
zmass 4 years ago
Yeah, magnets can't make vibration, especially not when in the presence of large amounts of electric current! After all, I'm only *imagining* the vibrations I feel coming out of that 15 inch subwoofer...
There will be a substantial force transfered from the magnets to the ground; nothing is perfectly damped. But yeah, the air noise would be more significant at most locations.
zaphraud 4 years ago
wow, this is a REALLy long reply list O.o
frenrirrider 3 years ago
that... was very very fast!
EdwardNbella 4 years ago
sheeeeeeittt!!!!!!!!!!! America need some of those
kawasakikillerr 4 years ago 3
Those "loud Americans" didn't sound very loud to me, but I'm a loud American myself. That's an amazing train. They need one from Seattle to San Diego.
spudmustang 4 years ago 3
do you live in seattle?
kumatador 4 years ago
i lived all around the world and seen everything.
I don't think the japanese are going to waste their resources to build something so large for other countries.
If America wants shinkansens or maglevs, they need to make it themselves.
xXd6y8j4Xx 4 years ago
Yeah, just like our cars.
spudmustang 4 years ago
thats gonna take a loooong time.
xXd6y8j4Xx 4 years ago
Have you rode on the Shanghai Maglev Train?
s7o0a0p 4 years ago
Omfg that thing is like a BULLET!!!!
runeman2006 4 years ago
Americans are very nasty people.
andrewbarrett42 4 years ago
ケンカをやめて~♪
二人を止めて~♪
私の~ため~に~♪
あらそ~わない~で~♪
もう~こ~れ~い~じょ~う~♪
Song by JR Maglev
100YenSushi 4 years ago 3
I take it you don,t like Americans.
andrewbarrett42 4 years ago
Disadvantages of the Japanese technology are the high costs, the high technological expenditure for the high-temperature superconductors and the extreme magnetic fields inside the vehicles (1000 times higher than in german Transrapid). Forbidden for passengers: Cardiac pacemaker. Problems for handy-phones and memory cards). Additionally, the unregulated levitation system of the Chuo Shinkansen means much less comfort.
internetcafe111 4 years ago
tht was awsome well done :)
jonnymuffins 4 years ago
Darkpredatorx: No sir, japanese maglevs are not more advanced -- to the contrary. They need wheels (!) up to speeds of 150 km/h! Beside of this they still need a long time for development to reach the point of commercial use. Maglevs needs a extremely long time for testing. The Transrapid is also able to go speeds over 500 km/h if needed.
Cre7tiv 4 years ago
Yes, but the transrapid-accident was just a stupid mistake of an construction worker which can also happen in every airport, normal railway or even at a highway. As it was only a test-track they didn't install the same security-device as on a commercial track.
Cre7tiv 4 years ago
damn thats fast!
lewisjonestheass 4 years ago
Maudit qui va vite
visse007 4 years ago
Less trains, more jap. girls next time, kk? ;)
About the train: They should make it glow, so when it goes, what is it? 500km/h+?, it will look funny xD
selesher 4 years ago
Less trains, more jap. girls next time, kk? ;)
About the train: They should make it glow, so when it goes, what is it? 500km/h+?, i will look funny xD
selesher 4 years ago
w..o..w!!!!!!!!!!
Crombom101 4 years ago
Loud American??? ...um I heard the gaggle of Jap girls before I heard the American...
skot66 4 years ago
algun español viva españa live for spain
borjaisart 4 years ago
un saludo video tren aficionado
borjaisart 4 years ago
this a BASURA tarda mazo en cargar los japo no van a ninguna parte lo mejor lo español a lo frances a 574.8km por hora
borjaisart 4 years ago
well, the Japanese can use their technology, they just wanna polish it more. I think...
mtlguy112 4 years ago
While Japanese are still developing the german transrapid in China is daily routine since years. It does not need wheels to start and is much more matured. Transrapid offers trains in each speed-segment, it could be risen up over 600 km/h, it depends of customer wishs. Between test-trains and series-production readiness can be decades. In Shanghai there is no test-train, the daily-routine-future is present, Japanese are presently still working for it's future.
internetcafe111 4 years ago
Hi German, but your talking are wrong. Japanese Maglev tecnology is more advanced and the first time, Chinese goverment asked Japanese goverment to sell our Maglev, but one of our politician STRONGLY OPPOSED to sell our tecnology, cause they would use our tecnology in their militaly. so they nextly asked German goverment.
darkpredatorx 4 years ago
...and, look at recent transrapid accident. If you are really German, you can understand what I say. Even in China, there was fire accident.
...So, definetely transrapid is not "much more matured".
darkpredatorx 4 years ago
It was too early to practical application...
darkpredatorx 4 years ago
There are a bunch of retards who are jealous, have no life and have to COMPARE EVERYTHING! Just shut up and watch the video, damn!
Which, by the way,sushidroid, is very cool. =3
RocketRodder 4 years ago
Thank you! The train, it was fast.
sushidroid 4 years ago
Could you really feel the vibrations before the train came? :O?!
RocketRodder 4 years ago
Not especially, since it actually runs very smoothly! But it was coming out of the tunnel so there was definitely a moment of roaring noise before it went by.
sushidroid 4 years ago
"I can actuallly feel the.. " I heard someone say. But wow, that sounds cool, yet very scary X)!
RocketRodder 4 years ago
Agreed. But I want to compair how a pickle sandwhich (which is in frout of the trains window) can also go fast as a train, lol.
BTW, are you intrested in Video games?
Juliusaime 4 years ago
Pickle sandwich..? o_O
And yes, as a mattter of fact I am.
RocketRodder 4 years ago
sweet =)
Juliusaime 4 years ago
I'm designing my own, check out my newest video.
RocketRodder 4 years ago
ha there, first hi my names mike i live in the uk, love the videos, but i was wondering if you knew of a vertical maglev because iv got a great idea.
My your family live on till time ends.
dafurios 4 years ago
"germany had fucking hitler"
annyonghaseyo90, plz think before you post^^
I don't think this fact tells anything about people in
germany TODAY! So plz stop saying "germany is not good, the had Hitler.."
Look at USA, they still have an asshole!
CokeJunkee 4 years ago
tushe
annyonghaseyo90 4 years ago
True and I'm a Amrican. I don't care if a contrey got tooken over by Hitler some 70 or so years ago, hes dead now and now I can enjoy old WW2 cartoons on Youtube that got banned for some reason
Juliusaime 4 years ago
This train has no motor. It is moving using magnets.
Which German engineer would think about that in 1995?
(The first commercial Maglev was opened in 1984 in Birmingham,though)Also it has no wheels...
GeorgeKM84 4 years ago
Well but Germany has the best Engineers in the world, and that a fact.Just a matter of time till we build the best trains...
Randy1337 4 years ago
Germanys trains are crap, they have no idea of how to run a train system, ive been there and i have know the facts! Japan has the best trains in the world!
mystro997 4 years ago
Do not compare. Just watch.
owenboya10 4 years ago
As the title is written on top of the video, "Japanese Maglev train", NOT german maglev, british maglev, chinese maglev or american maglev. Why cant people just see great things and admire it instead of getting jealous and talking a whole load of bull****!
teej70 4 years ago 2
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asparagustips 4 years ago
Football is from Aztec or Inca isn't it, when they used to play with heads?!
robinbg 3 years ago
The girls behind were much louder if you didn't notice.
WiseGuy8861 4 years ago
You people are like a bunch of children. Who cares who invented what. I'm American and I don't understand why we always have to go starting crap with everyone. Germany, Japan, and England are all f'in cool. Let's try an make some friends instead of making everyone hate us.
defaultkails 4 years ago
ditto!
VeroChan85 4 years ago
hayai! cho-hayai! sugee~!
VeroChan85 4 years ago
LMFAO @ loud american hahaha. that train is awesome
gtirlad 4 years ago
The Printing Press was invented by a German.
That was one of the most important inventions of modern history.
sanjgij 4 years ago
lol the british actually invented it originally quite a long time ago but we abandoned it
Ramerez491 5 years ago
fuck you the british didnt invent shit. the germans invented it in 1934. hermann kemper did that. you british claim to have invented everything and yet you didnt invent anything.
TransrapidSupporter 5 years ago
Don't be stupid. The British invented a hell lota stuff than the Germans.
Tunaan360 4 years ago
Like TV... Well, actually that was a Scotch... :P
Alfa984 4 years ago
tell me a couple of british inventions you idiot.
you guys pride urself of having invented a lot but germany has always owned you. retard!
TransrapidSupporter 4 years ago
Owned us at what? Fucktard.
Ok then: Fax Machine, World Wide Web, Seismometer, Corkscrews, Electric Motor and the STEAM ENGINE you retard.
Tunaan360 4 years ago
you invented hp sauce(which smells like sour gym socks)? ;)
realbiggun500 4 years ago
Haha lol. Hp sauce is quite nice.
Tunaan360 4 years ago
only on bacon sandwitches
realbiggun500 4 years ago
germany: telephone, car, bicycle, maglev, computer, CD, mp3, petrol engine, diesel engine, rotary engine and many more.
and you guys did not invent the steam engine or the seismometer. and oh wow a corkscrew. the world really waited for that i guess.
TransrapidSupporter 4 years ago
Check John Milne on seismometer and Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt on Engine. Corkscrew was just an add on.
Cool, well we're both as good as each other, now we can both shut it okay??
Tunaan360 4 years ago
wow we are all stunned by your ignorance and stupidity.you did invent genocide though.
realbiggun500 4 years ago
no that was the british with what they did in their colonies. fucking racist pricks.
TransrapidSupporter 4 years ago
not racist just the facts. cue germany and genocide in googe. enjoy. sorry to burst your bubble hans. by the way germany does not have all the prowess you belive. cue the ice train in germany that flew off the rails OMFG!!! LOL sorry OWNED.
realbiggun500 4 years ago
germany has had two train crashs in its history. thats really not too much. and our trains are always on time. the brits dont have any fast trains and they are still fucking late.
the fastest train in england is in fact a french train. how embarrassing is that you fucker?
TransrapidSupporter 4 years ago
1 our trains are not the fastest because we do not need them to be, and the ones that need to be fast are. what you have to take into consideration is that our railways were ot designed for high speed trains, we have adapted to what we have. rather than replacing everything. btw, many british train crashes have been caused by vandals.
roadkill1991 4 years ago
* the ones that need to be are as fast as they can be
roadkill1991 4 years ago
haha you artard. that was hundreds of years ago.oh my your dumn.yer all british people go around with their white wigs lol and their quills.i bet what ever country your from is 100 times worse especially germany or america
annyonghaseyo90 4 years ago
MY GOD!! YOU STEREOTYPICAL BASTARD!
roadkill1991 4 years ago
lets just hope it was only genecide to the puerto ricans right;)
annyonghaseyo90 4 years ago
ha ha lol no i cant belive you just said that. although ofcourse germany is different now but you cant forget your history even though germany would never do something like that now
annyonghaseyo90 4 years ago
nice try, we invented the maglev, the scramjet, and we scots invented: the kaleidoscope, the paint pigment, carpet cleaners, the US navy, adhesive postage stamps, hypodermic needles, anaesthetics, golf, paraffin, radar, hollow pipe drainage, breech-loading rifles, etc. so shove that up your uptight german ass.
roadkill1991 4 years ago
also kippers and the bank of england
roadkill1991 4 years ago
germany had fucking hitler.theres nothing more to say
annyonghaseyo90 4 years ago
such a dumb comment can only come from some english fanatic who is jealous that germany is much richer than england and also much more important.
TransrapidSupporter 4 years ago
독일반대
annyonghaseyo90 4 years ago
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asparagustips 3 years ago
You're referring to a legitimate business transaction implementing a Transrapid system from Shanghai to Pudong Iternational Airport, first set up in 2002 and began regular service in March of 2004. However, it wasn't the commercial success that had been anticipated, and expansions on Chinese maglev lines may potentially use Japanese shinkansen (instead of the Siemens-produced maglev already in place).
sushidroid 5 years ago
yes i hope they buy the shinkansen instead and stop copying our transrapid. the chinese are the biggest copycats in the world, fuck all the communists.
TransrapidSupporter 5 years ago
I hear the Chinese have stolen Maglev technology from the Germans... I think they're testing their Maglev at Shanghai.
g8or8de 5 years ago
Not quite - Transrapid (Seimens + ThyssenKrupp) have built the world's first commercial Maglev in Shanghai, it connects Podung Airport with the Long Yang Road metro station (31 km, 430 km/h). They haven't "stolen" anything - hats off to the Chinese for having the balls to be the first to invest in tomorrow's transportation!
duckjock 5 years ago