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  • There’s a reason these trains are max 350km/h. Its simply infeasible to build and maintain the track and the train that runs 500kmh.

    Where are you getting this information from? I’d like a source. It sounds interesting. Would fit really well into an episode of “Real Engineering” or something.



  • Yes, just yes

    Since the 1955 record, where France recorded a world record of speed of 331 km/h, France has nearly continuously held the absolute world speed record. The latest record is held by a TGV POS trainset, which reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) in 2007, on the newly constructed LGV Est high-speed line. This run was for proof of concept and engineering, not to test normal passenger service.

    That’s the record.

    As of 2022, the fastest trains currently in commercial operation are:

    1. CR400AF/KCIC400AF, CR400BF: 350 km/h (220 mph) (in China and Indonesia)
    2. TGV Duplex, TGV Réseau, TGV POS, TGV Euroduplex: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France)
    3. Eurostar e320: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France and United Kingdom)

    The are current trains.

    A direct train on straight track in the land of the lack of regulation could easily have a 500km/h average on a separate line. The US could be *plastered with train tracks making train travel much more convenient that a plane.











  • The Linke is very present on social media too. I remember watching Deutsche Welle English and they compared the number of accounts and number of followers for each party in the German parliament and The Linke was not that far behind AfD. The problem is that the platforms they are on are owned by uberwealthy, right-wing billionaires.

    We need a #WealthTax and for more people on the fediverse where companies don’t control the algorithms and surface right-wing stuff all the time.


  • Not that these you questions have anything to do with the linked article’s topic

    How do technological backdoors have nothing to do with hacking? The Australian state is also trying to force its children (and thus adults) to hand over ID to access social media. That’s just more data for hackers to retrieve and use for nefarious goals. Especially if it’s biometric.

    How is increased surveillance not an issue? A car that surveils you is definitely a hacking target and the more the state legislates that there should be more surveillance, the more things there will be to hack.

    How does tech sovereignty not prevent hacks? Opensource stuff has more eyes on it and the more states use it, the more paid people will develop it and check it.

    And you’re talking about cars: imported stuff from China means it can come “pre-hacked”. Local production will mean less chance of backdoors by foreign actors.

    I think it has very much everything to do with the article’s topic.