China’s high speed rail network is the best in the world, with trains capable of safely driving themselves – or so it is hoped, after one shocked Chinese passenger discovered the driver was asleep at the wheel, whilst the train hurtled through the night at 195kph.
The train was en route to Fujian province when a 25-year-old female passenger noticed the driver had left the door to his cabin open as his air conditioning was broken.
To her horror she realised he was sound asleep, and so she naturally took photos of him and uploaded them to a Chinese not-Twitter service.
Coming only a few months after 240 people were killed in a high speed rail accident the government literally attempted to bury, an uproar soon ensued – although not without some wag observing that “this brave driver has proven beyond doubt that China’s high speed rail technology is the best in the world!”
At least the train made it safely to it s destination unlike the Japanese train derailment back in 2005 (that killed 101 people)Amagasaki…lol
Communism at it’s finest.
“this brave driver has proven beyond doubt that China’s high speed rail technology is the best in the world!”
f♥♥k you! Unless it has a built-in A.I., machines still need operators!
china is just too epic for words
ahaha I love the flipping of a really bad mistake into something positive, thats some good spin.