“Video of a Japanese train traveling 515 km in 10 minutes at a maximum speed of 4800 kmph”
Social media posts
Claim dated 2 Feb 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
It is a time-lapse video. The original uploader has mentioned that the video was made by a method called ‘Time variant hyper-lapse/time-lapse’. The maximum speed of Shinkansen is 285 kmph. Generally, it takes 2 hours 30 minutes on the Shinkansen to go from Tokyo to Osaka
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 February 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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