China on Wednesday increased the maximum speed of bullet trains on the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway to 350 km per hour (kph), reducing the inter-city travel time by five minutes.
The route now runs a Fuxing (Rejuvenation), the newest bullet train model developed in China.
The increase will shorten travel time between Beijing South Railway Station and Tianjin Railway Station from 35 minutes to 30 minutes with no price difference in fares.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday August 10 2018, @12:55AM (3 children)
350km/h = 97 m/s
Bit faster than most people can notice/react/jump out of the way.
Www.caixingglobal.com/2017-03-27/101071006.html
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @01:36AM (1 child)
Found one recent apparent suicide in Japan,
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/13/national/shinkansen-kills-man-jumped-hachinohe-station-platform/ [japantimes.co.jp]
More people were hit by bullet trains in other countries, but nothing like the big numbers of industrial accidents noted in grand-parent.
The high speed tracks are fenced off to keep out both people and animals (cattle, deer?), it's not like wandering out onto rural rr tracks by accident.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday August 10 2018, @12:41PM
"Level Crossing" is the railroad employee term you can google for, and its SUPER American/USA, in that only the USA doesn't care and does them all the time, most countries go to some effort to avoid them.
A good SN car analogy is in most countries, a pig iron blast furnace is pretty safe from old ladies and little kids accidentally walking by and falling in, because they're installed behind walls and fences in industrial factory areas, but in the USA, they're like fuck it, they build blast furnaces right thru downtown next to the city park, so lotsa USA folks get killed. Thats why they're pretty cavalier about them in civilized countries because the death toll is a bit lower than the USA for similar technology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @12:08PM
Corrected link: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-03-27/101071006.html [caixinglobal.com]