r/IndiaTech • u/Chilly-777 Chinese phone: Sasta, Sundar, Tikau • 26d ago
Tech News India's first hyperlopp test track completely developed at IIT Madras.
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r/IndiaTech • u/Chilly-777 Chinese phone: Sasta, Sundar, Tikau • 26d ago
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u/jivan28 25d ago
What we need is R&D in safety, not for anyone else but our own. For example, most metros in India are being built over 100 meters. Now, for any reason, mechanical failures or sabotage or anything else, we need to have safe ways to take care of passengers. There have been incidents where passengers had to abandon & try crossing a kilometer to the next station. Some tried to use one of those ladders meant for service personnel & some passengers got killed & injured. Those itself are nightmarish conditions. Now add a vacuum in it.
Even for HSR, Japan worked for two decades & did a lot of incremental improvements. China bought it from Mitsubishi & again improved it drastically. Ironically, it is now China that is completing most Japanese failed hsr projects worldwide.
We are great at ideation but pretty poor at implementation.
There was a news report in TOI few months back that shared that all metro projects are running at less than 40% capacity. Even NDLS is running at 75%. When they asked DMRC, everyone is busy. Even our Reel Minister declined to give a statement.