The technology is certainly there; Japan and France both run double-deck high speed trainshttps://twitter.com/campbell_kang/status/1052175767818227712 …
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Japanese ones are multiple units, French are locomotive-hauledpic.twitter.com/G3nyMYdCFw
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Replying to @380kmh
btw how is the technology so different that the French need to fill up an entire (well, two even) locomotive with tech, but Japanese don't?
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Replying to @briedisunrepshe @380kmh
I was about to say operating speed, but the newer lines of both TGV and Shinkansen operate at 320km/h, so probably a design/engineering choice
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The record test speed for the French one is a whole 130km/h higher though (not that it's very useful though), so maybe it was decided to go with MU in the first stages of development when motors were weaker and the tradition was kept over new generations
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Replying to @Sokow_ @briedisunrepshe
locomotives have been around FAR longer than MUs; MUs are the newer tech
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Replying to @380kmh @briedisunrepshe
Aaaah I was in disbelief that locomotives is the same word in French and English, somehow then thought that MU was the name for locomotives, sorry about that
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oh lmao no worries
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