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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34ok that makes zero sense....
listen Americans on the most part are *trying* to get rid of the ego centric "what's 'the rest of the world' ? " stereotype, do your best not to set them back... - Sirfrummel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22unveils the fastest in the world train?
WTF does that mean?
Do you mean... "Japan unveils the world's fastest train?" - pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21In best Yoda voice:
On the train you will go. Yes. Yes...fastest in the world train it is. Go you now, or your ankles I shall bite. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16It also means that they have to develop much better alternatives to cars, because they don't have the space to store them, nor do they want the pollution.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14In America this train wish I had we.
- SoccerBoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16OK, I think what you are trying to say it's that the US isn't better then Japan or anything like that, but that the US is much large?
If so, I would agree that in countries like Canada, the States and other countries (with a large "foot print") it would make sense. Japan is a relatively small country in comparison, but that shouldn't mean they should use slow transportation methods. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9First of all, terrible grammar. You make us look like idiots.
Second of all, yes, our train system sucks. I ride the nation's only half decent train (Acela) on a regular basis, and while convenient and fairly comfortable, its average speed is about half of what it needs to be. Much of the problem stems from the ridiculously unequal support for high quality high speed intercity mass transit versus that of highways. Furthermore, we have some absurd arrangement where Amtrak leases usage of the rail lines from freight companies. The freight companies dont care about having tracks amenable to high speed people transport, so they arent going to shell out, and Amtrak is run my a bunch of morons at the moment.
While high speed rail might not be financially viable all over the country due to a lack of density, it is certainly viable in the northeast corridor. Meanwhile, it still takes me 2 hours and 50 minutes (on a good day) to get from D.C. to NY on the "high speed" Acela. Thats only about 220 road miles (if you're driving, a straighter rail shot would be even less). You do the math. Its ridiculous. HIgh quality, genuinely high speed rail in the Northeast corridor would transform the entire east coast, unclog the highways, and the passenger volume would allow the price to come down. - manitcor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Actually it doesn't make as much sense in America at least on a national scale. Trains like these need specially built tracks in order to achieve their high speeds. Most tracks still in use in the US were built in the 1800s and 1900s and are not suitable for high speed use. The high speed trains can use these older tracks but they are limited in their speed to not much faster than a regular diesel train.
There is already some limited high speed trains in use in the US. There is a bullet line between the Baltimore/DC area to NYC however since its inception it has been hemorrhaging money and has been plagued with multiple technical failures. I would not be surprised if we see more use of high speed trains in a regional sense in the future however don't expect to board a bullet train in NY headed for LA anytime in the next 100 years. - khalua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I heard it turns into a mechanized, 10 story tall robot. But it's slow once it's in robot form.
- Rajio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Because you are ignorant and an Americentric charicature of your countrymen giving everyone else on the continent a bad name.
Read a book. - KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8No, it would make 100x less sense to have something like that here. Why take a train across the country when you can fly in a fraction of the time? The Japanese use trains as an economically efficient mode of transportation around their small island, where it would be impractical to fly everywhere. Also, if we had trains like this all over the us, I guarantee they would lose money except maybe along the east coast, but even now trains here are losing money.
- sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yeah seriously I live near LA and they were wanting to create a super train from LA to Vegas. Driving its about 3-4 hours with the train it would be about 30min, but it never went through all the small towns were complaining they would lose buisness. Vegas even said they would pay for everything never happened though lol gotta love politics....
- mousky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Bang on. High speed rail travel in North America is only feasible in a few areas. Where it is done, it is woefully inadequate. High speed trains should be on their own tracks with no level crossings. The northeast corridor is the perfect example of where high speed trains between Washington DC and Boston should be running at maximum speed and at very frequent intervals (say every 30 minutes).
- agarc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2926400396387878713&q=maglev
Unless this is the same train, the maglev in the test above exceeds 500kph...So wouldn't that be the fastest? - Ericular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'll never understand why people digg stories with terrible grammar in the title. It's the most important part of the submission. Don't digg them, resubmit them with proper grammar. It's true that it makes us all look like idiots.
- tedc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That is odd wording. Assuming a poor translation job was to blame, I would have expected something more like "In world fastest train by Japan unveiled" in keeping with proper Japanese grammatical rules.
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Gookie
"Most probably he's a Jap himself."
Keep your derogatory, racist terms to yourself, and off Digg. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Fact is --the automobile and oil/petrochemical industries have a stranglehold on the US.
(USA, inc.)
We will NEEEEEVER get fast trains betwen states, 'cause they can make more money with the present system of cars. - Phosphan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, not the same stuff. The German train called Transrapid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid was sold to China. The Japanese development is a rather different system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR-Maglev
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm not agreeing with arch, but I don't see what the big deal with trains across the US is anyway. Every time I've tried to plan a trip the cost of taking a train has been just as much or more than flying and takes 3 days instead of 3 hours. I definitely see the benefits of commuter trains, but having a high-speed train across the US seems like it would take up unnecessary space and cost too much for a long time. It works much better for a smaller country in my opinion.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Kevin is killing me tonight:
http://digg.com/technology/Japan_s_Record-Breaking_Commuter_Train_2
http://digg.com/technology/Japan_s_Record-Breaking_Commuter_Train
If at first you don't succeed - TyRaNNOus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Simple answer why we don't have one here. Simply not enough price gouging potential.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it me, or has there been a decline in the use of proper grammar in the headlines.
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Most tracks still in use in the US were built in the 1800s and 1900s and are not suitable for high speed use"
This is true, most people probably don't even know the train lines on the Monopoly board are real and are still used every day here, they've just been renamed when they were bought by our current public transit. For a few years I took the "B & O Railroad" to school every day (now it's the R8 line) - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4......?..MISPLACED MODIFIYER!
- BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The train in this article hasnt been tested any higher than around 400 km/h. It is said that they aren't gonna test any speeds in the 500 km/h range.
So it probably theoretically has a top speed that is higher than 500 km/h but they aren't gonna push the train that far. - Tyrel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In the future, sniper6121, could you please try using a little more punctuation? Your comment is extremely hard to read! It's much like the title of this digg story... :)
- conigs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In general, dupes suck it it's the same story posted on the front page several times. However, those two, for whatever reason, fell through the cracks and never made it to the front page. So I see no problem in this story being posted (especially since it's a different story) and dug to the front.
Oh, but thank you for not saying: "DUPE!" and simply posting links to your own submissions in order to try and get more diggs. That really annoys me. - CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3CAN ANYONE SAY "MISPLACED MODIFIYER"?
- NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The fastest train in the world, and in Engrish no less!! I for one, am impressed.
- UprightJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I took a Shikansen from Tokyo to Hiroshima and back in February. It was awesome. If you think you wish we had these in the states now, go over to Japan and take a ride on one. You'll be willing to sign over your first born. The one I rode was slower than the one in the article - it traveled at about 180MPH I believe. It was awesome. It was like flying on the ground.
The ride is extraordinarily smooth and comfortable. Plus, you don't have the hassles that you have with flying - baggage claims, security checkpoints, pressure changes, uncomfortable seats, cramped spaces, etc. With a train, you don't have the weight constraints that you do on aircraft so things are much more spacious. Some of them have dining cars.
Hopefully someday we'll have something similar on the east and west coasts. There's even been talk of building something similar between Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. It always gets shot down though. I think it would be great if I could hop a train to Cleveland from Columbus, be there in 45 minutes, catch a concert or have dinner and be back home 45 minutes later - not to mention possible business advantages. I could easily work for a company in Cleveland or Cincy. It would be a long commute but it wouldn't be all that bad.
P.S. I don't think the one in the picture was necessarily the new model. It looks exactly like the one I rode and the different models in the past have looked radically different from each other. - centinall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Speak for yourself. I love stopping in little towns along the way. Just like Barstow. That place is awesome!!!
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You're right about the Monopoly Board, Most of the stations still exist; Kings Cross, Baker street, Euston road... But I don't see what that has to do with America. Or are you in the U.K..?
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um...ever been to France or Germany. They have faster and just as smooth bullet trains as in Japan.
- Sirfrummel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Are you saying... In America, we want this fastest in the world train?
- tedc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Last time we were in Japan, we took the Shinkansen up north on a whim. It was an incredibly smooth ride, like you say. You could hardly tell you were moving without glancing out the window. The train was mostly full of suits checking their watches and maybe the occasional family. When we reached the end of the line, we switched to a clunky old diesel. It made a terrific racket -- CHUG CHUG CHUG -- yet barely moved at all. It was full of chatty farmers yelling to be heard over the din of the locomotive, and the girl beside me immediately launched into her life story. I speak Japanese to a degree, but that rustic accent was something else. I'll never forget the contrast between those two trains!
- plum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4yeah, very old.
- SDE06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey the TGV is France is still serving more than 10 different cities in Europe at very high speed! This was the case since the late 80s! Beats any air travel door to door.
Why can't we have fast commuter trains here! Acela was developed using the same technology and could run just as fast but was bugged down by farking regulations !!! - f1ape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2an actual pic of the new train...
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/archive/news/2006/03/12/20060311p2a00m0na032000c.html
looks like an alligator - BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I think he meant, 'Japan unveils the fastest train in the world'.
Same difference. - riancurtis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*the fastest train the world.
- mrowlinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2English much? What kind of grammar is "fastest in the world train?"
- MrStylz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Philidelphia I assume. I take the R5 :)
I'd like to see less stops so that it's actually faster (than driving) to take a train to NYC, DC, Baltimore, Boston, etc...
I hope the "high-speed" lines mentioned above aren't referring to the Acela, which is a joke I think. It cuts barely anytime from the Amtrack regional rails. - bobbo69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Only problem is at that speed powering it produces masses of CO2 - not far off flying. People need to chill and slow down a bit, I reckon :)
- Garf13ld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here in the UK there are some politicians who are trying to get the go-ahead for a mag-lev train between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Would mean a one hour train journey at present would take 10 minutes. I'll believe it when I see it.
- TheColonel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2because Blaine is a Pain, and thats the truth.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whoa. I got buried. It was just a joke, people. Geez.
- Scorp888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Except of course they haven't.
The fastest Train is still the TGV - France - 515 kph (320 mph).
The six-car Fastech will aim to log the world's fastest speed for wheeled trains at 360 kilometers (224 miles) per hour during a normal journey.
Key difference is the shinkansen aims to do this day in day out.
Trains in the US would work, especially at 500mph+
More economical than planes, more environmentally friendly and ultimately more secure than aircraft.
Also Newyork - La non stop, sleeper for the price of coach class, you'd just do it over night.
However, I could see all the small towns between NY and LA wanting the train to stop there.... - coreman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, you haven't lived until you have tried to drive from Las Vegas back to SoCal on a Sunday afternoon. You thought your city's highway traffic was bad? Lessee. It's 90 miles or so from LV to Barstow, CA, where I-15 goes from 2 lanes to 3 SB. Imagine, 90 miles of stop-and-go traffic, with no alternate routes, really (except for taking the road that goes through the Mojave Desert and works its way down through Joshua Tree).
Complete and utter *****. Do small towns underneath air routes petition for the govment to mandate that the airlines have to make 747's make short stops along the route? If not, then why should any planned railroad right-of-way go out of its way to go through towns like Barstow between LA and LV? The whole point for a rail line like this is to have minimal stations and a clear and secure right-of-way with no grade crossings. These towns would be better off getting Caltrans to extend the commuter train runs to Barstow, but who in their right mind would want to live in Barstow to commute to eastern LA suburbs (the key there is...live in Barstow)?
For others who think that a rail line would be more secure than an airplane, you're so wrong, though. The train itself might be more securable, but the rails certainly aren't. - Reddog_x2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ they were wanting to create a super train from LA to Vegas.
Bullet trains would be ideal for this kind of medium distance run. Vegas, in particular, would have made a killing had this gone through. -
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