High-speed trains

Someone has once said “Life is a journey, not a destination.” However, for

decades, technological advancement in high-speed trains has been only focusing

on decreasing the time it takes to travel from one place to another. That’s

purely an oversight of how much quality time we can have to make bonds with

our friends, family members, the mother nature, and even ourselves while we’re

traveling on the trains.

We can’t deny that the most famous nation that has been developing the

fastest high-speed trains is Japan with its state-of-the-art Shinkansen, aka the

bullet train. It claims that within the next few years, their bullet train will be

able to travel at the maximum of 320 Km/h. That sounds crazy, isn’t it?

There’s also the so-called Hyperloop, an ambitious engineering project, which

was recently reintroduced to the world by SpaceX, a high-tech company owned

by one of the richest and smartest guy on earth, Elon Musk. With this tech-

nology, they aim to reach a top speed of 1,220 Km/h, which is 4 times higher

than the Japanese’s!

However, nowadays, more and more people are starting to see the importance

of journey and ways to spend quality time with those they love. This is exactly

how the low-speed train idea was born. Imagine you are traveling by a train

which is passing through a fantastic scenery in Hokkaido or Switzerland which

could take your breath away. I bet you wouldn’t want a high-speed train during

the trip.

In conclusion, we should combine both the high-speed and low-speed train

technologies into a new one called, mixed-speed train. This train will travel

fast when it is passing through dull areas and slow when it is passing through

wonderful places. I’m writing this article on a train. Next station, Changi

Airport. Thank you for reading.