runway - felicitous Japan , a country that probably takes great delight in look out America’sembarrassingly slowandfitfuladoption of high - speed and maglev trains , will be ornament with new stock of green , 200 + miles per hour railroad train by 2010 . Kawasaki Heavy Industries , the designer of these new string , is n’t promoting stop number as the master selling point — Japan railways have seen much faster hardware fly down the tracks before — but instead is accent its environmental benefits . The main bit of fleeceable tech will voice middling familiar to car enthusiasts ; regenerative braking , which convert brake immunity to electrical energy , has been a received feature article of intercrossed cable car for quite a few years now . The 217 mph cruise speed , not so much . For reference , Amtrak only serves about five destinations with its high - speed service , which tops out at 150 mph on a beneficial day . For brat , consider that theMetrolink crashthat killed over 25 the great unwashed occurred at no more than 50 miles per hour . [ Wired ]
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