A new Chinese train innovation: how to get on & off the bullet train without stopping.
No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. There are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, so just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time! The Chinese are innovative enough to come up with a non-stopping train concept. When the train arrives at a station, it will not stop at all.
The passenger at a station embarked onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrive at the station. When the train arrives, it will not stop at all. It just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which will move with the train on the roof of the train.
While the train is still travelling away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train's roof. After fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof.
When the train arrives at the next station, it will simply drop the whole connector cabin at the station itself and leave it behind at the station. The outgoing passengers can take their own time to disembark at the station while the train had already left. At the same time, the train will pick up the incoming embarking passengers on another connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof. So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and pick up a new connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof at each station.
It's like getting into a car crash in reverse.
downhere85 2 months ago
The design has a few flaws apart from those mentioned by TheIdliSambar.
-Stability - when the train takes high speed turns the connector may fall.
-Acceleration - would be very harsh if the train is short.
In all honesty though, I'm jealous I never thought of it! :p
mackat4ck 2 months ago
Pretty neat. Except the passengers who have to get-off will have to walk all the way to the compartment that has the connector cabin above it. And what if there are more number of passengers to a destination than the number a connector cabin can contain.? more infrastructure will need to get planned out for such cases. But this is neat..
TheIdliSambar 2 months ago
That's a really cool idea
Pooshooter5k 4 months ago
Lol, really cool!!!! Hahaha
leoachilles 7 months ago
cunts fucked
alexgirotto1 10 months ago
WTF
superstockballer21 1 year ago