Why don't you jerks become engineers and built one here in America? Huh?!

That’s depressing…

@@tonycrabtree3416 Unless the system transports you, emotionally and then physically to new and beautiful locations. If it did so, effortlessly, it would enhance the whole experience and become a shining feature of the entire trip. What is depressing is that in 2.5 words you can out yourself as a real jerk. You could work on that.

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@@Bushlore1 I used two words and it’s still depressing to visit a country and the crowning activity being the public transportation system. U cry more now?

only by this point?

I would say apart from daily current affairs, videos, entertainment, jokes, science (study of a Process), mainstream narratives, propaganda, lies, etcetera if you're interested in Theology / Purpose/ Reason for Creation/ Existence even a slightest bit then you should have a look at this - First thing which should be considered is that THERE has to be one Absolute Truth/ Objective Reality (100%) [regardless of what different scientists, ph.ds, doctors, philosophers, societies, religions, cultures, individuals, etcetera believe]. The rest could be either - 1.) Some Truth with some Falsehood mix in it (no matter in what ratio/ percentage it is in) or 2.) Complete Falsehood/ Delusion (100% Wrong). Its something like this - [If Analogy is to be used our Body is like a Hardware of the Computer and our Soul is like a Software. Just as Computer's Hardware is Useless without a Software, similarly, a Body is also Useless /Lifeless without a Soul.] We go through 5 Phases in our Life :- 1. The Realm (outside of this material Universe) where we took an oath & chose to be granted free will and want to be get Tested (The Testimony of believing in Only One God by our soul), 2. In our mother's womb (9 months) - The soul is breathed into the body, which gets created from a single molecule through a unique DNA🧬 (An Instruction Manual/ A Program/ Code) fashioned/ programmed by Creator. And, as the soul enters a body that's from where our consciousness and conscience comes (it happens with a lightning speed i.e. in a fraction of a second which Scientists/ Doctors couldn't able to capture it), 3. On Earth 🌎 (On an average of about 60-70 years) [Commencement of Test with the Development of Conscience], 4. In the Grave (The time frame from our death till the Day of Judgment/ Resurrection) & 5. In Paradise or Hell (Eternal Life). All are Temporary except after the Resurrection. So, the consciousness in brain 🧠 gets activated when soul enters the body & through soul the conscience (sense of right and wrong) of heart gets activated (including feelings like joy, peace, pain, anger, etc.).

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I thought of a way to contradict you but decided it's way better to just say, I agree.

True! I've watched almost all of his videos

And how did they? It's always more useful to enlighten the rest of us rather than complaining about the omission in a video's content.

@@danguee1 I don't actually know how they solved the problems with solid rail pieces warping either, only that there were very good reasons for the gaps to exist and how making rail tracks seamless has a serious physics problem to solve. It's the reason I'm miffed by not just the omission in the video, but the misleading suggestion that Shinkansen was innovative just because they decided to make their rails one solid piece instead. As if the existence of gaps in rail tracks was some kind of mistake or accident that was trivial to fix.

​@martenkahr3365 he did mention that they basically built a roller coaster.

As a teacher I love this tiny story of Japan's collective dedication to education. Besides knowing many other Japanese people who embody it, I also lived for four years in S. Korea, so I know it transcends that one nation. I miss the status learning broadly and educators in particular are afforded throughout east Asia. Instead of being political pawns, educators there are usually listened to, and extremely deserving of their status. Entry to the field is highly competitive and very much based on merit. We saw zero nepotism during our four years there. If a teacher wants their own child to be a teacher, they encourage them to work hard--and pray they have the natural abilities and disposition to accomplish it. The only exception I saw to this anti-nepotism rule in S. Korea occured between private after-school academies who became profit driven to the point of subordinating academic excellence to making money.

That seems like a great story on paper, but that’s the exact reason that JNR were in unfathomable amount of debt, got dessolved, and Japanese citizens have been repaying the debt through taxes ever since

@@ginyah781 Not everything is about making profits. Successful transportation systems benefit everyone and benefit the economy in every way. So them losing money and people paying that money from their taxes is not an issue. By that logic schools should close because they don't make profits either!

@@yasmin7903 Profit is so alluring. It’s the root of so much corruption. I anticipate US schools to follow in the footsteps of corrective institutions, contracting services. And all such private companies (in high-risk settings) are generally free to arm their employees, so no more school massacres!

Just give her a handcar, you know, a rail cart propelled by hand pump.

100% agree. I live in France and have taken both multiple times, and let me tell you that the TGV from Bordeaux to Paris was the rickitiest track I've ever ridden 😂 And the SNCF delays have just become a staple of French culture at this point

@@iphiko9638 What a shame, when a train ride gives you rickets.

@@davidanderson2357 What are rickets ?

China has beaten Japan years ago, the Chinese have High speed train Fuxing, 435km/h record, fastest train on rails in the world! with passengers! also China has the biggest railway in the world! almost 50,000 kilometres. Nothing comes close to what china has achieved.

And what benefit has going super fast if you miss the connection?

Technically the Northeast corridor (what inspired the Shinkansen) but the northeast corridor is over a century old and in need of refurbishment

Very important point. With fast direct connection to/from local lines and no airport security, it's much easier to utilize shinkansen than other countries' high-speed rail. Also, with the platform and train cabin floored at the same height, there are no steps between the platform and the train cabin. Some European trains are tall with low station platforms, so there are steps inside the train to raise you from platform height to cabin height, inconvenient if you have luggage. (There are still stairs within a train station to get to the platform from the ticket gate, but there are also escalators and elevators.) The only thing that is "inconvenient" is not being allowed to use IC cards, but the ticket's cost would otherwise quickly drain an IC card empty, anyway.

I think it's also a matter of necessity. America went with roads and personal cars. We've got the wide open spaces (particularly when we decided to go with that strategy in the 1940s). That's not an option in Japan. With most of their land mountains, building the roads necessary for all those people to travel by car would be a nightmare if not straight up impossible. Not to mention, where everyone would park those cars in the cities. And while Japan's overall size isn't huge, it is very long, so speed is vital.

@@ressljsamerica going for a car centric society must be the biggest blunder they’ve done

​@@ressljs Cars in America still only make sense in the rural areas. In urban areas - at least in the densest cities, if not the suburbs - it's most efficient to build everything close together, which means moving away from this excessive car use

Great comment👌👌

Sincerely wish you can make your dream come true. You'll never regret visiting Japan, lived there for around four years.

I've lived in Japan for over 16 years and I can say that I wholehearted recommend coming for a visit. It's a fascinating place, with many problems just like anywhere, but the people do their best to respect each other which is something I love.

Good luck with your dream.

Of course they have their positives, but their work culture leaves a lot to be desired... the suicide rate in Japan is high for a reason.

Lmao why white supremacists have so much love obscession pet-like with Japan

I'm in the US, our "leaders" can really learn from this

@@trebor6v418 dunno if it can work in the US...for one, defeat helped ignite that hungry-spirit

@@trebor6v418 A very different political landscape.

Hmmm

Europe should daughter the Japanese Bullet trains when they complete the Mag-Lev line throughout the country, and actually build the necessary lines with redundant routes to important places while taking a different path, yo insure that even in case of natural disasters, there is a path to safety, in a 2+2 setup, 2 main lines (that are separated in routes but simmilar in arrival time) with 2 auxiliary lines that are way slower, but are alternatives that can be taken in case of emergency.

100% agreed. I was there this summer and its basically an airplane on wheels.

Trains are usually more spacious than planes haha. Calling it a plane is an insult

@@superhenkable Looking at photos from a shinkansen... not by much if at all.

You think a plane is spacious?

​@Blueknight1960 commercial airplanes are... some even have 3 whole floors In them not counting the cargo area!! That's bigger than my house!!

I feel same. I think the USA has 1 high speed train that connects DC to New York or some place. But there are a ton of commuter flights that could be supplemented with high speed rail....LA to Vegas?

In the 1950s and 1960s car companies bought up railway lines in LA, Michigan etc and demolished them, building roads instead with the complicity and co-financing of the government.

The US still relies on extremely polluting flying for most of its transport. Its not even an efficient form of transport, with all the delays and nonsense security at the airports. With all the money the country has, spending even a 10th of its military budget on a good train system would be enough, if they keep it going for enough years during construction. Just connecting all the major cities would be a feat by itself that is probably just worth it, allowing more people an alternative to flying that is just as fast, safer, and can run on electrical power. It also is potentially cheaper, both to operate and maintain, which will lower travel prices and increase economic output.

This is what happens with your country spent all their money on new highways.

That is what happens when your states are the size of many of those countries, it's a completely different scale.

Sounds like you’re calling him a farm animal. 🤨

No moustache 42 is disappointing me

yup, I managed to book ¥70,000 worth of travel on my ¥50,000 2-week train pass. With the price increase I'll probably "pass" on it next time.

You didn't miss it. A big part for why trains rarely are delayed is the structured getting on getting off process. The train stops only for a short short time and the platform is marked so you know exactly where the door you should enter will appear. First time you ride shinkansen it can feel a bit stressful and intimidating. Cause Shinkansen waits for no man!

Can the key to Japan's success be that they have a mono culture? Everyone working together towards a goal that everyone agrees is the way to go? Without any wasting of resources trying to encourage other cultures to work together, not against?

There is no delay (besides act of Gods), because nobody wants delay.

Came here to say this exactly. I literally clicked the video for the title. Definite clickbait. Will not recommend channel.

The real one trick, not mentioned in the video, is that they build time in the schedule to be late. Trains routinely run at a little less than top speed, and dwell at stations a little longer than they really need to, so that they can work with small hiccups and not have them blow the national schedule for the rest of the day.

Was about to comment this too. Some nitpicks on information accuracy

He did point it goes from Hokkaido to Kagoshima, effectively connecting most of the country. That in and of itself is outside the main point which was that the train line was developed to solve actual identified problems rather than stoke egos and thus it works. As for nitpicking: Kanazawa-Tsuruga is merely an extension of the line originally created for the 1998 Olympics. The problem with Tsuruga is that while it’s great to get to Fukui from Tokyo, it’s not helpful for Osaka/Kyoto or Nagoya to get to Kanazawa. There’s been talk of the Shirasagi/Thunderbird trains stopping at Tsuruga but we’ll see.

@@Trollllium Nitpick it may be, I feel that it's our duty as viewers to point out inaccuracies as we see them. Although to someone like me who actually does travel by rail in Japan, it's not an insignificant mistake.

@@iPlayOnSpica Yeah I was gonna say, his line shows the Kamome connecting to Fukuoka/Hakata but it definitely does not!

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@@Miss-Anne-Thrope YOU WANT ROOM 16 FOR HIM ?

Instead of throwing away 100 billion on a shiny super fast train, why not introduce an integral pulse timetable? It vastly improves the travelexperience and is way less expensive. Further more it is more simple to justify expansions

The thing is, Japan uses a heck ton of plastic. I came back from there less than a week ago and I was already aware of how much plastic they use - mostly plastic bags and bottles, which is surprising considering how strict their recycling system is. And we sadly know that only about 10% of what is supposed to be recycled truly is. They do sometime use aluminum bottles, I'm surprised it isn't the rule rather than the exception. Having said that, Japan is an incredible country.

Just back from a fabulous experience - but I have never seen sio much throw away plastic: virtually every item is plastic shrink wrapped.

What? Why not both camera and security guards on the train? More security and camera hardly cost money after first installation. Never thought that Australia would be so backwards minded

Same, but i had to stop subscription after those inbuilt adverts, the YT as platform itself only makes it worse by using brute force to shove adverts into consumers faces. I don't mind adverts, but i do despise abuse of power over people who still pay with their time/bandwidth etc.

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I expand this comment by also saying you could have added 10 minutes more by detailing the man who fought for this train. I am sure you Thoughty2 of it also (get it - thought=thoughty2??? I digress... sigh) Add an addendum video to this for this or another video! I would absolutely love a comparison between him and Richard Branson (another pound of flesh but worth it)

Technically the Railroad Electrification used and the cab signals were invented by American railroads but that was before world war 2

The Thing that's really embarrassing is that the Track the Acela uses was some of the First electrified track in the world and had cab signaling in the 1920s as it was part of the Standard Railroad of the world or the Pennsylvania Railroad which helped to pioneer the technology that would enable high speed rail however that was in 1934 and the Pennsylvania railroad merged with several other failing railroads in the 1960s to form the infamous Penn Central which was one of the largest bankruptcies in the country it was so bad the federal government stepped in to create Amtrak and Conrail

It wasn't just that he was running late, but he also had an emergency brake penalty from earlier on and another one would mean his punishment would be cleaning the rails with a toothbrush for several weeks. Thankfully this kind of idiotic behaviour is no longer tolerated by JR. Edit: I have to say my wife also dodged a bullet with this train as the crashed service was one she frequently took to work. This happened to be her day off. The next day, she took the Hankyu line permanently.

yes, why can't the rest of the developed world copy japan? we would get a global utopia. not even kidding

I assume it is because RAID SHADOWLEGENDS 💀 as well as YTs AD POLICY *cough-cough*

@@breadandcircuses8127 well connected, punctual, smooth and fast rides, relatively cheap, trains stations well stocked with food, signs making it easy to navigate. The public transport in each city though.....

the trains here in sweden are pretty slow too. they're very modern and they look nice but the rails are too old to handle super high speeds

@@krisstopher8259 Same deal here in Norway. They run modern Stadler FLIRT sets, but 97 percent of the network is so out of date it's not even funny. Most of it is single track with too few passing loops. And curvy. And with gradients too. With the exeption of a few modern stretches of rail with 200 km/h line speed near Oslo, it's all ancient. And since the capacity in the network is over utilized, it actually takes longer for the regional train between- say- Oslo and Bergen today than in the early 70s... It's a ruddy disgrace, is what it is!

What makes it worse in Britain is back in Victorian days Brunel designed his broad gauge GWR railway from London to Bristol. It's still the best piece of track in Britain, very straight and fast and broad gauge was much more efficient and gave a smoother ride. Sadly none of our other track was built to his high standards.

@@Innerspace100 yep. that sux

I never understood why people think that all trains must be 100% perfect with 0 delays at all? Even if they upgrade the rails, they would still be some delays, due to rail maintenance, derailed train, leave fallen onto the tracks. Are you people really that impatience? What wrong waiting 2 minutes for a fucking train? I love how people get annoyed and impatient waiting for than 5 minutes for a train, yet never seem get impatient waiting 9 months until their wife or girlfriend gives birth.

Hecklefish will not be pleased with this statement. #fearthecrabcat

Yeah, I'm straight but jealous. He's so obviously all that.

I love Hecklefish too 😂😂😂 #lizzidpeople

But he should totally wear that mustache.

@@ZombiePanda1776 Aren't hecklefish the ones who keep interrupting clownfish during their comedy routines? "Take off your scales!"

You haven't seen an ICE in real life. That totally breaks your expectations in German engineering.

people slam German trains but I actually like them a lot. They might be late but the experience is consistent and the stations are in the middle of cities

There actually are Japanese companies trying to build bipedal robots you can pilot. They're a bit a ways off from Gundams though.

i actually thought he said "Gundam rollercoaster" and had to skip back to check...."goddamn rollercoaster"

excellent point! on my Japan trip Hiroshima to Shin-Yamaguchi was ~50 minutes, an the express bus from Shin-yamaguchi to Hagi was about that

High speed rail is currently a heated political topic in England, especially in The North and Midlands. These barbs were well placed.

the highly pun-worthy content made it all the more better :)

Of course steam wasn't that bad either, despite what the video says the C62 class 4-6-4s could put on a decent turn of speed with 129 kmh (80 mph) recorded on the Tokaido Main Line.

Also, rents aren't that high in Japan so there isn't much of a barrier to live in big cities. A big reason this is, though is that the Shinkansen made Japan so interconnected that living in a smaller city isn't that inconvenient, unlike the US or the UK where the economy is concentrated into a few (or even one, London) expensive cities. You probably won't commute from Shizuoka to Tokyo but you can easily go to Tokyo to a concert or embassy if you need to

How, though??🤔 Can't you only appreciate what you experience (in some way)?

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Please stop this trend ffs

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It would be unfortunate if you disliked your own comment. lol I like your comment too.

If you are not willing to upvote your own comment, why should anyone else?

Loser

"sleek, other-worldly newt" That's some turn of phrase ya got there...

with smartphones you can also just follow your location on the map app, if the train doesn't have in-car station displays (Keihin express to Haneda was the worst offender here)