Comments on: Lawsuit Forces EPA to Tighten Ozone Standards

By: Saffsd

Saffsd — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What happens if everyone wants to get off at a particular stop?

By: john

john — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

then they r all fucked ya smart ass

By: someguy

someguy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Why do you clam it’s a Taiwanese Invention and the video is in Taiwanese? It says right at the beginning (upper right corner) that the Name of the Designer is Chen Jianjun of China, and the YT video is in the Chinese language.

By: ash

ash — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

well in tw they speak chinese

By: jakengracey

jakengracey — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ummm because Taiwan is an island province of China?

By: axel

axel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Taiwan, whose official name is Â«Republic of ChinaÂ», is one of two nations that claim to be the Â«real ChinaÂ». The other is of course Â«mainland ChinaÂ», whose official name is Â«Peoples republic of ChinaÂ». Both of these countries consist of Chinese citizens, both have the same language and culture, and both consider the other country an illegitimate government that has misled a part of the Chinese people. PRC is a communist state, while ROC is a democracy.

(This is a simplification, the PRC is so big it contains many different cultures and languages, PRC is almost two orders of magnitude larger than ROC, etc.)

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey!
Please,that’s definitely a Chinese guy from Wuhan,Hubei province,China!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

China/Taiwan sparring aside, this seems like a great idea for making train travel faster and more useful as well. Faster is obvious, because it doesn’t have to stop, but more useful because you can have more stops in more places, getting the benefits of a local train (or even more stops) with the speed of an express train. Anyway, it wouldn’t have to be used 100% this way, you could still stop the train at the endpoints and a few major stations in between.

By: chinglish

chinglish — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

All orientals look the same to me. Don’t they all speak chinese?

By: Jasper

Jasper — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

How do you get from the carts into the main train? Guess there would be a hatch the cart will park ontop somewhere?

If you cant get in the main train, people getting in the carts are forced to only go one station further.

I am also not sure how practical it is. For one, some trains have electical cables hanging above in the way.

By: evvk

evvk — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

So why not just have a second train travel on the side? No need for clumsy roof hatches, just the same old doors. I still doubt the practicality and safety of this, though. At high speed, you’d need very long parallel tracks for people to have the time to switch train, and if you slow down a lot, you could just as well stop.

By: evvk

evvk — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

And, of course, it all the energy savings are lost here: you need to decelerate/accelerate the second train/loading car. Speeds may be higher as the main train doesn’t have to stop, though. Maybe the simplest solution towards that would be to have the last self-propelling car of the train detach before a station, and a new one attach after it.

By: mh

mh — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

While the designer speaks with a thick taiwanese accent, the characters in the video are written in standard simplified chinese as used in the PRC and the train is identified as “Number 168 from Beijing to Guangzhou.”

Taiwan is and will always be a part of China.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

so what if i don’t want to get off at the next stop? i would hope they have an access to the bottom of said train so that a large number of passengers can sit and relax for longer trips while those taking a shorter trip (to the next stop perhaps) would be able to stay on top

By: CatintheHat

CatintheHat — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Learning about all these different asian countries can be quite dis[b]orient[/b]ing.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If slowed the unloading shuttle by having it compress air, you could use that air to accelerate the loading shuttle

By: free

free — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Taiwan is not and will never be a part of China.

From the massacre in Tiannamen Square to the brutal suppression in Tibet, the communist bastards prove they are not real Chinese.

It should be said:
China is and always will be part of Taiwan. I look forward to the day when the people of Communist China stage a national uprising and execute every last one of the China leaders. Then, and only then, will we in Taiwan think of allowing them to be part of the real China.

By: Bilbad

Bilbad — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

C’mon, people, it’s a simple concept that saves time and energy. Half of the embarking is done at the station. The other half is done underway. The people have to move twice, but the train never stops. So, barring any emergencies, you save 1) the time of stopping the train for passengers and 2) the energy of decelerating and accelerating the train.

By: evvk

evvk — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“2) the energy of decelerating and accelerating the train.”

As I already mentioned, you have to decelerate and accelerate the embarking car. No energy saved, unless the embarking car is very lightweight. But then, barring science fiction technology, safety issues dictate that speeds must be slow, which means the train must slow down and accelerate again. It’s simple physics. To hurl a human plus extra protective mass/shell to such and such speed from zero, that and that much energy is required.

(Trains could be made much lighter than they’re today, but largely at the expense of safety standards. Since trams don’t travel very fast, they could probably be very light, if they didn’t have to survive a crash with a car.)

By: carterhawk

carterhawk — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Some of you seem to not be paying close attention. The embarkation car is a fraction of the size of the main train, thus making it much lighter, as well as not having any locomotive of its own, another reduction of weight. It takes far more energy accelerate an entire train vs a single mini car. Thus, there is significant energy savings.