The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoJapan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square446fedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down157
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minus-squarejoshilinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 months agowe have plenty of bullet trains - 367 last I checked, plus bullet trains from other countries - they’re just chronically late because of car-focused policies over the last decades causing the infrastructure to basically rot away. still no ass-wiping robots though, maybe one day…
minus-squarewoodgen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoyeah we have a bunch of ICEs, but no transrapid for us. japan has a bunch of maglev trains.
minus-squarePersnickityPenguin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoJapan has one maglev line under construction with a completion date set for 2045.
we have plenty of bullet trains - 367 last I checked, plus bullet trains from other countries - they’re just chronically late because of car-focused policies over the last decades causing the infrastructure to basically rot away.
still no ass-wiping robots though, maybe one day…
yeah we have a bunch of ICEs, but no transrapid for us. japan has a bunch of maglev trains.
Japan has one maglev line under construction with a completion date set for 2045.
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