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The Onion was right about high-speed busses replacing high-speed rail
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N0tTheBees sh.itjust.works N0tTheBees@sh.itjust.works
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Onion Video: Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan

News Segment: Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Had a good laugh when they pulled up a similar CGI animation on the news segment.

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modem_down thebrainbin.org modem_down@thebrainbin.org
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I'm all for extra public transit, but 140mph on a bus (not a guided bus) sounds highly unsafe. 70mph is more realistic.

Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity, so a 140mph bus would have 4x the KE of a 70mph bus.

  • 70mph crash: dangerous but should be survivable for seat-belted passengers.
  • 140mph crash: probably fatal to everyone on board and anyone in its path.
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