China Developing a 'Floating Train' to Travel Faster than the Speed of Sound

BonzoBanana That was very entertaining B

I believe some items to be faulty, especially electrical , but where people are being filmed in the home is a bit suspect, why film someone cooking for example unless the broken pan is staged to break

Saying that i won't be one of the first to buy a ticket on this pioneer train , i would rather trust the Japanese one despite being a lot slower , their products are a lot safer

telmel Japanese are the best engineers no question, fantastic cars typically that can last a long time and you can depend on. I know there are some exceptions but generally brilliant products. Japanese cameras from 15 years ago are still better than Chinese designed cameras of today with their fake claimed resolution and rubbish upscaling of images. I actually bought a bundle of cameras of ebay sometime ago and one of the cameras was a Chinese designed model. 24 megapixel on the front of it but actual sensor was 6 megapixel if I remember rightly, it was nothing more than a toy, no optical zoom just digital zoom and a fixed aperture. Cost cut to the bone to provide the bare minimum of functionality and performance.

BonzoBanana I have fell for their bargains in the past too B

PaxAmerica I order a lot from Temu too P and must admit most things are fine albeit some are a bit flimsy

I can only think of a wired computer mouse i ordered that broke within two weeks, the wire broke where it joins the mouse itself

Lets see what these new Chinese Evs will be like, some of the tiny models are cheap as chips , but i think back to the early days when other manufacturers had faults on their vehicles, Fiat being a 'prime example' , they were rust buckets with a lack of 'primer'

PaxAmerica Chinese products are all over the place in quality but their cheaper manufactured stuff can be comically awful. You have to look at products on a one by one basis. Most manufactured items you buy today are coming from China and even items from Europe can be fully made in China or be simply assembled in Europe with almost all Chinese parts. There isn't a robust certification system in China itself so many products for export through normal channels have US or European certification applied to them. However the same factory can make products for the Chinese market with lower quality components and not really certified.

An example of this was a few years ago I bought a cheap Poundland bicycle light that took 3 AAA batteries for a £1 but I also won a ebay auction for something like 20p from China for the same light. That light arrived with rusty terminals. The Poundland light had stainless steel terminals but the Chinese one did not. Same light, same factory but slightly different construction. In certification you have what you call the 'critical component list' this means the item is only certified if it contains specific components or stated high quality alternatives however the same product sold in China would probably have the cheapest electronic components they could source. Same factory but completely different quality. Another common cheapness is a high quality product might have a motor with copper windings however a cheaper version would have aluminium windings which are not as robust and shorter life. Ok for the US where consumers often only have a 3 month warranty but not here where products are often 1 year or more for their guarantee.

Many US and European importers force Chinese factories to make better products because it would be illegal to import products that don't comply with the certification.

Mango4 Good point M