China Bullet Train Recall

[mooncliff]

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Sometimes cheap is expensive.

In the longer run, everyone from the top down now knows you can cut corners only so far, which is another necessary painful step on the long road to constructing a modern infrastructure.

And as Lex Brodie in Hawaii used to say: The most important thing about your car is not what makes it go. It's what makes it stop.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77B0GS20110812

[aaron]

Re: China Bullet Train Recall

I really want to buy a t-shirt:
"I survived the Beijing Shanghai Bullet train"

The workers (at least the ones I saw) do not seem to care. There will be many accidents in the future, even if they "fix" the trains.

[touchring]

Re: China Bullet Train Recall

I really want to buy a t-shirt:
"I survived the Beijing Shanghai Bullet train"

The workers (at least the ones I saw) do not seem to care. There will be many accidents in the future, even if they "fix" the trains.

You're lucky to take it when it is brand new. Those components they use in the trains, switches and signaling devices will work for at least 2 years, just like the American designed iPhones, of course, provided they are not struck by lightning first.