>>1596417>>Prototypes worked fine, tested a hell of a lot - main issue was with noise, which could have been fixed using electric motors... if funded.Reduced? Maybe. But fixed? Doubtful.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they could have either continued as is, and ended up with a plane, but slower and with higher infrastructure cost, or added a catenary and ended up with a slightly faster TGV but with higher infrastructure cost.
Now Maglev on the other hand…