Greetings from India. Awesome train. Great speed. Great video. Thanks for uploading.

AWESOME ¡¡

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really cool! Now I know I have to visit Shanghai.

Very nice, I hope this trains may some day replace continental flights, but for that it will have to become cheaper

@loaduponc So very same thing you could found in CRH. It has internet access for privilege class and comfortable seats, catering car is included. A cigar place vertically on the table does not tip as its stability had proven. Furthermore, Acela is built on old tracks which is modify to accommodate them but China built newer tracks for maximum performance. A trip from Beijing to Shanghai can be as short as 4 hours on CRH train and speeding on longer journey than Boston to NYC.

Took ride of this awesome train in jan,2007.True its speed is 431 KM/Hour

A certain German expert actually started the whole Maglev Transrapid idea. He is dead a very long tim, but he must be remembered and given credit.

@Ferior ★It is not only Japan to have developed under the influence of the U.K. Germany and U.S.A. and France were the same as Japan. And the era is also same. Many people in the world misunderstand or are ignorant about this point.

@Ferior Do you know that the time of the Industrial Revolution happened in Japan is almost same era as that of Germany. Yes, First Industrial Revolution was happened in The Great Britain only. ★Second Industrial Revolution was happened in Germany Japan U.S.A France in 19th century.

wow!

yes, i saw a documentary about that, that would be a huge and expensive project but i think it would be worth it. I think the travel time as expected to be 56 minutes from London to new york.

German tech，磁悬浮技术德国引进的400多公里每小时的速度还比不上日本和法国的高速铁路，价格也贵很多。政绩工程，不合算。

shanghai to hangzhou mag lev is now under construction , the longest maglev line yet built

@NayHtun007 Hong Kong and Islamabad can use these, airports r quite far from the main citites

@Ferior There are many things. For example, Hybrid car which technologies were exported to EU and US, because companies in EU and US could not developed. No country could not invent A continuously variable transmission(CVT) for more than 100years. ★Even Germany could not and have given up. ★But in the end of 20th century, Several Japanese makers invented several CVT by the entirely different methods. Germans were astonished knowing this.

some big cities areound the world have airports so close to their city, perhaps they have planned for growth , so built it far out? Does it matter how far it is - since this train will take care of the distance in no time!

I think this kind of train may become the future, but by now, they are extremely costly, and as far as I know they can't manage switches. This is a tremendous drawback since if you need to connect several cities you need to build a very complicated and expensive network. In the future, further improvements may let these trains become the standard in mass transportation, but by now, they seem to me a technical show only.

@Ferior Japan exceeded Europe in the culture standards such as Kabuki, the ukiyoe print,,and so on. As a result, Japonism movement had happened around Paris ★and had a big influence on Europe culture for 100 years. The world's first novel is The Tale of Genji of Japan written in 12th century. Trial system was also established earlier than Europe. Sewer diffusion rate in Edo era had exceeded Europe. So at that time, European had used perfume for concealing a smell.

@fdoca For example, ★Optical fiber communication was invented first in the world by Jun-ichi Nishizawa, a Japanese scientist at Tohoku University. ★But Novel prize for it was given to Charles K. Kao, a Chinese scientist who developed the Nishizawa's invention.

@Ferior It is natural that Europeans were so astounded because other Asian countries(including China) were so obsolete at that time. And Japan introduced European style law. but this also does not mean that Japan could not make it by themselves. Japan is the country of Wa. Wa is like something harmony. ★④★So Japanese often dare to abandon Japanese things and and adopt and introduce foreign things for avoiding confliction and maintaining peace.

They could check the speed for example with a doppler- effect calculator radar, or scannig the railway

yes.. but the japanese train is only a test platform... this one is for commercial use...

Japanese maglev has been advanced system than germany in all time. But Japanese JR gives priority to cost ,safety,environment effects.... Of course JR can build maglev earlier than shanghai ,but darely didn`t do that. considering cost ,safety,environment effects.... So Chinese maglev is Just only Sample Test Sacrifice of German maglev.

@Ferior I though was look like a japan place of the railway. Don't realise that you said not japan this is in a China! I haven't seen that before anyway.

@Ferior You referred some economical factors like natural resources . But I don't think so. I think Chinese crucially has a wrong idea about national development. ★Whether some nation can become a advanced nation depends on human resources.

@raks1178 Thanks for the nice comments. Have a look at my one minute view of India or the pooja in Varanasi and let me know what you think. alistair80537

WOW! Is amazing that very Posh Train. Japan really richest in the world than England!

@Ferior By the way, ★Do you know that Eu concept is made by Japanese Wa spirit? Eu concept was made by Aoyama Eijiro＝Richard Nicolaus Eijiro who is called a father of EU in Europe.

bless Germany... coz Maglev is a technology from Germany and Japan too!

0:46 holy shit :O

they could measure air speed, just like in planes

@Ferior But ★Tokugawa Bakufu(government)had banned the development of science and technologies relating military forces for maintaining the peace. As a matter of fact, Japan was already a maximum export country of guns in 16th century before Tokugawa era because Japanese guns were most excellent in that era. So, if Tokugawa did not banned development of science and technologies ,Japan might have invented steam engine which introduced industrial revolution earlier than The British Empire.

french tgv is on rails this is magnetic there is no comparison at all may bhi french trains can run over 1000 km on magnets

@Ferior I made a mistake. ×Rape and Nanking is the culture of Confucianism countries like China and Korea ◎Rape and Massacre is the culture of Confucianism countries like China and Korea,

yeee haaa - i've been on that train, sure is faster than the bus or taxi.

There are always arguments about the talest the fastest the largest. It is all in the small print, does it include the antena on top of the building, was it a test run or commercial operation. This is a fast train.

Please make this somehow better.

World's major Maglev train ★Japan 　completed 100% self-developed world speed record 581 km/h ★Germany completed 100% self-developed exported to China ■Japan and Germany developed each Maglev train by themselves with 100% different methods. ★England developed minor Maglev train ,and USA gave up the development of Maglev train ■No other nations could not develop Maglev train.

to make the trip in 56 minutes it has to reach mach 8, because you have to account for acceleration and deceleration times. Again, this is not something i saw on discovery channel, on future projects that are theoretically possible , but way too expensive

NO The entire system was built by a German group with Siemens as the major contractor.

dude video posted 2. Februar 2007 your post 2 weeks ago ;)

@Ferior For example, 3 Han(＝prefectures in Edo era) produced steamships without foreign aids within only 1-2years after arrival of Peri's steamship. In 16th recordbooks written by European missionaries, European were astounded at the high level of Japanese life and morality and technologies and so on. ★③★Many European said "Here is Far East. But In every respect, this country exceeds Europe. What kind of country is this?"

Japanese has already bought half of London and NewYork already! Look around all those nice cars manufactured in US - they are all Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi etc.. where they find cheaper to use US labour - it is the same in Europe, cheaper to use European labours. China will start to make things in US and Europe where they will find cheap labour too - give or take in 5 years or so.

@tokiorouge246 guess what mate? The computer you're typing on was made in China. Your iPhone was made in China. You've had to import these luxuries into your life too.

@Ferior ★⑥★To be sure, Japan was influenced by European things in 19th century. But Europe also was influenced by Japanese things in 19th century like Japonism movement that continued for 100 years. Japanese things have strongly influenced entire European society not only about art but also industry. For example, Gardening of England is strongly influenced by Japanese Garden. The German knife industry famous for Solingen is strongly influenced by Japanese Katana. ,,,,,,,,and so on.

@Ferior Surely rare cases are existing. China and Chinese had many respectable things until Tang Era. But modern China and Chinese have few respectable things. So,they are much hated in the world. I think that Chinese should study more why Tang Era was so excellent and get hints from it.

don't compare french TGV or german Ice (on conventional rails) with Maglev(Germany-Japan) it's a magnetic train. Different technology. Maglev is awesome but this technology is too much expensive for a "universal use" today. Maybe in 30 years... a future technology, but who knows? Nowadays Ica, TGV and Shikansen are more safe than Maglev! (no lethal accident on high speed lines)

fck thats fast i wanna go on one someday

@Ferior So it is often said that modern European society cannot be argued without Japanese influence. We must not forget that. If not, it's unfair.

@Ferior Human resources are as below things : To respect craftsmanship, trust others, observe a public rule, uphold the law, not to break an agreement, value something to live for more than money, be punctual, do not cheat others, apologize obediently for the mistake, Sacrifice the self if necessary for others, ,,,,,and so on ★Ancient Chinese had much of these. But modern Chinese has nothing about that.

@Ferior arrogant? No, As I said before, I like ancient China. and many Japanese also like and respect ancient China. I said nothing arrogant. I just only said the truth of modern China.

@Ferior Yes,That's true. But then, it is in contradiction to what you said before, right? You said like that Chinese economy is getting stronger than Japan.

Why does the ariport have to be so far away anyways?

@Ferior You are wrong. ★Japan society of the Edo era had advanced than Europe. In the mathematics, Japan had invented the concepts such as the Matrix, the calculus,,, earlier than Europe. The world's first futures trading market began in Dojima, Osaka. This fact is posted on the building of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

★Many Chinese is thinking that if they gain a lot of money by cheap labor and buy or steal foreign technologies, it makes possible for them to invent innovative things. But it's wrong. It is not easy to invent innovative things. ★Most important thing in order to invent innovative something is not technology itself but the social environment. And it is very difficult to change the social environment. Besides it takes so long time(maybe more than 1000years) to change it.

@Ferior Ironically, many real Chinese culture are existing in Japan, not in China.　 ★Japan always progressed. China always retrogressed after Tang Era.★ One other thing! Real Chinese national costume is not the so-called "China dress" but "Han Chinese clothing" which was invented in Tang Era. Japanese Kimono is derived from it and has been developed more by Japanese. But many Chinese don't know this.

@tkandme3 lol, you don't get an opinion on what is fastest, it's matter of fact. I'm sure you have an opinion on what the tallest mountain on earth is too, no doubt it's somewhere in Philidelphia.

By the way , the comment function of this KZfaq is not used easily. This is really a crap.

@Ferior Chinese diplomacy in Africa is good. I agree about that point. ★But we must not forget that China is much hated in Africa by Chinese diplomacy like that.

@Ferior Chinese should admit real facts. ★China must make a real high quality goods without foreign aids and must develop new high technologies without foreign aids.★

@hunterziegelmann No Japan has 100% self-developed by 100% different methods from Germany. And German technologies never catch up with Japanese ones. You don't understand the difference between Japan and China.

How long is the distance from Shangai to Pudong ?…

China has the technology to make train faster, but it is not necessary now.

@Ferior natural resources? To be sure, Japan has not plenty of those. ★However, the energy consumption rate of Japan is very low by Japan's high technology. Sometimes it is a one-tenth of the same production made by China. ★And Japan has many stuff which cannot been made in other countries, so, many countries cannot help buying Japanese stuff. Yes, NO CHOICE Then,it is inevitable for foreign countries to export natural resources to Japan.

★The prosperity of Japan and Europe is the one achieved by accumulating the culture of 1000 years or more in the past. To be sure, ancient China was advanced country but modern China has nothing to do with ancient China. ★There is not such sophisticated matured culture in modern China yet. ★And there is no possibility of modern China getting birth to such culture in the next 1000 years.

@Ferior I see it is your dream, but I don't think so. Chinese economy will grow. OK But also Japanese economy will grow. ★The quantity is important,to some level, but, the quality is required ,to further level. Time has passed for 18years from the Chinese economic reform by Deng Xiaoping started in 1992. ★And, in China, there have been little improvement of the quality. ★On the other hand, Japan became the 2nd best advanced nation only 19years after WW2.

@tokiorouge246 Open up your CPU, there must be at least two components which is made in China. So you're against China with the product which is made in China?

It doesn't go 500km/h.. only 431km/h.. still fast though :)

@Ferior This time's your comment is so absurd. current stagnation? No, Japan is always advancing. That's only the mass communication is not reporting it.

yeah sure,Indians r the "best"

tomgujin (2 days ago) marked as spam its not the fastest, japanese maglev has a record of 581km/h, well the maglev in shanghai has achieved 501km/h in test runnings, but will only do 430km/h for commercial use. its the fastest operational trian , for years now, test runs are differant, OPERATIONAL is the key word it runs every day commercialy

ot factoring in pollution or famine which effect %85 of the Chinese ?what famine ?have you ever been to china theres food nearly for sale on everycorner, and its far cheaper than the usa or europe, for the same exact thing , , i seen no famine there and i have lived in and travel to many provinces in china

@Ferior It is only because cheap labor that Chinese economy is growing. ★In real, it is not that Chinese economy is growing, but only that China has become a Japan's economic colony.★ The economic growth of China stops at once if the support of Japan is lost. ★It has not attached even to the starting line far from China's becoming the №1 economic power in the world yet.★ This is real in modern China.

@Ferior I respect China too. ★But its China is ancient China not modern China.★ You know? Meiji Ishin was leaded by Yoshida Shoin who respect Mencius. And members who were taught Mencius philosophy by their master Yoshida Shoin made up Meiji Japan and won the Russia. Japan progressed based on Shinto religion. And Shinto is derived from Taoism and has been developed in Japan. Chinese should study ancient Chinese excellent culture again.

@Ferior Primitive robot Karakuri ningyō had already made in Edo era, which was most advanced robot in the world. The world's first iron ship was invented by Oda Nobunaga in 16th century. As for the illiterate percentage, Japan in Edo era was the lowest in the world. On the other hand, there were many people who could not read a letter in Europe of the same period. ,,,,and on and on. Like these ,Japan had advanced than Europe in many respects.

1Japanese maglev invented by Japan No accident . low cost. No.1 high speed 2 Germany maglev invented by Germany Many accident . high cost. No.2 speed --------------------------------------------- *Shanghai maglev imported from Germany Many accident . high cost. low speed

@loaduponc US high speed rail sucks. Its not high speed at all. The Acela max speed is just 240kph, but its trip average is less than HALF of that (i.e only slightly faster than a car on the highway), and its very noisy like any other old fashioned train that has wheels on tracks. The Chinese maglev trains don't have wheels on tracks, they're almost silent floating above the track. They accelerate to 4-500kph and they just sit at that speed until the stop. Far superior to anything in the USA.

FUCKING TRAINS!

TGV runs at 200 mph,Shanghai maglev runs at 220mph,both for commercial use.highest testing speed of JR-Maglev reached 361mph,but not in actually commerical use.the fastest speed shanghai maglev reached in actual use was 311 mph,the speed is limited because the track is only 19 miles long,if the track is longer the train would've travel much faster. and shanghai maglev is German technology,and i wouldn't call german technology a "cheap copy". do your homework next time.

@ZhangsterWil ＝Insane Australian-Chinese Thank you for your really crazy comments like Koreans. hahaha

@Ferior It is very easy for any countries to make products with using parts made in their home countries. ★But if Nobody wants to buy those products, it is meaningless. In present, Nobody wants to buy Chinese self-made products because of very low quality. So, your opinion is wrong.

@Ferior ★Chinese should respect more your own culture and should not destroy them. I think it is the reason of continual retrogression of China.

its actually not THE fastest... its 2nd fastest...

@Ferior No, Japan have never copied Europe things like modern China. Sorry. ★China did dead copy, but Japan did not even copy. Surely, Japan was influenced by European things. ★①★But Japan was not taught by European directly. ★Japan watched European things and made them by themselves without any foreign aids. ★②★It is not that Japan could not make same things as European but only that Japan did not make by ban of Tokugawa Bakufu.

@Ferior >>South Korea produces electronics and cars that are just as good as Japan, No, you are wrong. South Korea imports many parts and technologies from Japan. And South Koreans cannot develop those parts and technologies by themselves. ★ After all, South Korean just only do assemble the Japanese stuff. The same situation applies to China. So, nobody admit development of China is real.

@fdoca Ok,But,if so, maglev that Germany developed also becomes a mere copy. And almost everything invented in 20th century becomes merely something copy. Is it OK? Yes,your claim is really absurd. Futhermore,　★ Actually, it is far more difficult to develop the invention or to commercialize the invention, than to do a basic invention first, especially in 21th century. ★This is applied to the criterion for selection of Nobel prize. Just you don't know that.　You are so ignorant.

WTF

stolen from germany ! they buy one train to see our technique and then built it on their own

Yeah, guess which countries are so much in debt and cannot afford to run an Olympics in 2012 - ha ha ha. 2012 Olympic games should be held in China again - better organised, better shows and venues above all. Power shift to the EAST!

★Chinese common sense　＝ ★non common sense in the world