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Re:China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced... by xarope on Monday September 16, 2024 @10:52PM (#41563579)
In support of HSRs; I recently took a car train in Switzerland. They have - I think - 5 of these, which take a shortcut tunnel through various mountains, and saves you quite a bit of time, as well as angst driving through narrow and windy mountain roads.

So I could see similar HSR car trains saving quite a bit of time, between HSR hubs in appropriate cities in the US, versus spending e.g. 20+ hours driving from Dallas to New Jersey.

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Re:China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced... by shiroiushi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @12:00AM (#41563966)
>In support of HSRs; I recently took a car train in Switzerland

>So I could see similar HSR car trains saving quite a bit of time,

There's no such thing as an HSR car train anywhere, nor is there ever likely to be. What you rode on is simply called a "train", not a bullet train. You can obviously transport cars by train, but you're not going to do it at high speeds.

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Re:China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced... by xarope on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:18AM (#41564390)
Maybe I didn't communicate this properly?

  - I saved a lot of time taking a car train, instead of just driving my car through windy roads
  - Similarly, I could see a HSR car train, if there was such a thing, saving a lot of time (and of course, freeing up the driving time to be able to do other things, whilst in transit)
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Re:China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced... by shiroiushi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:04AM (#41564673)
I did say you can't have an HSR car train. It simply isn't possible: it would take far too much time to load and unload cars. Also, the weight of the cars is probably too much for HSR tracks. There's a reason HSR can't share rails with freight trains.
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