Tag: TRAINS

We knew the Chinese were serious about doing this whole high-speed railway thing, but we had no idea they were this serious. As Engadget reports, researchers at Southwest Jiaotong University are currently putting together a prototype maglev train that can average a speed of 500 to 600 kilometers-per-hour (310 to 372 mph), as well as a second, smaller train that will reportedly top out at a ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... "Objectionable" Mohammed content recently inspired Pakistan and Bangladesh to implement Facebook blockades. The site eventually relented to pressure from the two nations and various Islamic organizations by removing the offensive page, prompting Pakistan to lift the ban. Bangladesh followed suit on Sunday by removing its barricade ...

Commuters in the Northeast who use Amtrak trains to travel back and forth will soon have a new perk on their rides. According to USA Today, Amtrak will offer free Wi-Fi service on its Acela trains that travel between New York, Washington, and Boston. Of course, there's a catch. The service, which begins in March, will only be free initially. Although, there's no timetable on when Amtrak would ...

For the past couple of decades, China's population -- and its economy -- has been growing faster than a speeding bullet. Now, they have a train fast enough to keep up. As the BBC reports, China's new Wuhan-Guangzhou railway is now the fastest train in the world. Making its debut yesterday, the train tops out at a speed of over 380 km/h, or over 235 mph, and, according to early reports, the ...

Fuel cells are supposed to be the future of power, but they've got a long way to go before they're mainstream. Companies have been tossing them in cars (so many cars), planes, cell phones, even MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). So where is this supposedly game-changing technology showing up next? Well, if you're a locomotive-loving Kansas town with a healthy Department of Defense investment, the ...

The Daily Mail reports that the British transit firm C2C has begun to implement a high-tech film that serves to block cell phone signals in specially designated passenger train cars. The policymakers at C2C, and those at plenty of other transit companies besides, have marked certain train cars as "quiet" for some time now, but have had trouble policing those cars' restrictions on cell phone ...

Following the horrible train crash on September 12th, the National Transportation Safety Board has banned train operators from using cell phones on the job, at least until a complete investigation can be preformed. Investigators in California found that Robert Sanchez, the engineer on the California commuter train, had been texting while operating the train. The accident occurred when Sanchez ...

Traveling by train would be a whole lot faster and more energy efficient if it weren't for that whole pesky having to stop to pick up and drop off passengers thing. Thankfully, a Japanese inventor, Peng Yu-Lun, has developed a concept vehicle that allows passengers to board and disembark the train without it slowing down... and, most impressively, without sustaining any bodily harm. The system ...