China unveils 'straddling bus' design to beat traffic jams

Started by blfair, May 26, 2016, 08:45:49 AM

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blfair

May 26, 2016, 08:45:49 AM
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/china-straddling-floating-bus-beat-traffic-jams

A Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus capable of gliding over the nightmarish mega-jams for which urban China has become notorious....

Adam White

#1
May 26, 2016, 08:50:56 AM
Wow. I actually checked the date to make sure that wasn't a left over April 1st story.
"If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly."

thelakelander

#2
May 26, 2016, 08:57:15 AM
They've been working on this since at least 2010.  I've believe it when I see it.
"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

Captain Zissou

#4
May 26, 2016, 09:39:35 AM
Think of how terrifying it would be the first time one of those surrounds your car.  Like Christmas vacation style with the semi truck.  I don't see this solving the bigger problems over there.

martt12

#5
May 26, 2016, 10:09:40 AM
I do love the concept and design.

BridgeTroll

#6
May 26, 2016, 10:15:20 AM
This only works when the cars stay within their lanes...

In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

CCMjax

#7
May 27, 2016, 12:15:19 PM
Leave it to the Chinese to come up with a nightmarishly terrible solution for a nightmarishly terrible existing problem.
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

JaxJersey-licious

#8
May 27, 2016, 02:14:51 PM
I bet when asked about the inspiration to build such an awkward out-of-place monstrosity he said something like "Shout Outs and Madlove to the Jacksonville Florida Straddlin' Skyway"!

Kerry

#9
June 07, 2016, 07:19:59 PM
Japan came out with this nearly 60 years ago.
https://youtu.be/tHExprbw198
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