Sofrigginawesome
NYT profiles the short-line maglev train from Shanghai to the airport and concludes, as I do, that it's really, really cool, but a bit of a waste to have an eight-minute trip at 268 miles per hour. But if this thing becomes economically vaible any time soon, you can bet on two things -- one, that we'll start to see it in the U.S. replacing commuter planes and two, that we will be using Chinese imports. It may cost a little bit more to be first, but they payoffs could be immense.
Correction: An alert reader informs us the trains are from Germany. So if we ever get maglev here, we will likely be using German imports.
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rj3 | 11:32 AM |
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Actually, German imports, since the train was built and engineered there.
