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A Japanese railway company issued a formal apology in 2018. They hadn’t derailed. They hadn’t broken down. A train simply left the platform 25 seconds ahead of schedule. Not minutes. Seconds. The Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train averages less than a minute of delay per year, and that figure includes disruptions from typhoons and earthquakes. This is not accidental. It is the result of dedicated tracks, predictive maintenance, and timetables locked down to the actual second. Cleaning crews turn over an entire train in exactly seven minutes — a choreographed routine studied by airlines all over the world. Since 1964, over 10 billion passengers have ridden the Shinkansen. It has zero fatalities from collisions or derailments. High-speed rail works. You just have to engineer it to never fail.