⚡️🇪🇸 ALERT - Horrifying footage shows train car apparently torn in half after collision between Los Yébenes and Urda in Toledo, Spain; at least 179 injured
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How does that happen?
Yeah I'm baffled myself
Atlas Shrugged
idk but i'm not a fan of fast trains. it's supremely more dangerous faster, *and* the energy cost of it is the square of the speed so it's also more "carbon pollution" and frankly i like my trains to go 50km/h
Trains across most of the USA go fairly slow mainly because all the tracks are in such bad shape here.
High-speed rail is statistically one of the safest ways to travel. The TGV alone has run since 1964 with its only fatal high-speed accident being a single derailment in 2015, across about 50 billion passenger kilometres a year. That record is what makes footage like this so shocking.
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Alternative ways to power exist. Electrical or even magnetic as I believe Japan is doing.
Speed is not the problem. Reliability of infrastructure is.
He doesn't say those specific words in the video, but he does threaten them.