Chinese Bus Allows Cars to Pass Underneath



China is trying to find a way to increase urban transportation without slowing down traffic. One proposal is an elevated bus that allows cars to pass beneath it:

Basically, it's a huge bus that operates like a train on wheels, and is so tall that cars can drive right under it. Each bus is about two street lanes wide and 18 feet tall, according to Song Youzhou, the chairman of Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Company, which is building these enormous buses.


Video at the link.

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Cool idea. I expect to see it implemented in real life around the same time we get our flying cars, personal jetpacks, and Moon elevator. It's easy to design something like that on paper, but it will never be built.
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What's a few deaths here and there from craptastic engineering, when there's billions of citizens still alive.

China is like a little kid with power tools. Doesn't really understand how they work, or what the safety factors are, but hey, they sound cool, so lets play.
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Vonskippy: I think they understand the safety factors; they just DON'T CARE about the safety of their citizens. They're willing to sacrifice individuals for the common good. Citizens are expendable in China.
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How would the bus turn, if cars are under it?

The only way I could see this would work is if the bus is meant to move large numbers of people with very few stops. The idea would be that the bus takes a long time to load, so it could let traffic continue to flow while it takes its time loading passengers. While it is stopped it would be not different then an over pass or tunnel to the cars.

Then when it is ready to move it would have to prevent cars from traveling under it. If they plan on moving the bus while cars are still under it, then they obvioulsy have some kind of magic the rest of the world is not aware of.
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This is not a bus it is a vehicle that runs on tracks, presumably a train, and as a train it starts to make a lot more sense. It would be a much, much more efficient solution than building an overhead rail line. The big problem seems like it would be that any car that gets in a fender bender with this thing is likely to be completely annihilated.
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I am not sure how safe this is. If someone is texting and driving and swerves to either direction they would cause damage to the train.. Causing everything to stop way longer than what it would normally do stopping to pick people up. it would be really cool if as the bus is slowing down to pick up a customer, to then raise to allow a car to get underneath
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I am not sure how safe this is. If someone is texting and driving and swerves to either direction they would cause damage to the train.. Causing everything to stop way longer than what it would normally do stopping to pick people up. it would be really cool if as the bus is slowing down to pick up a customer, to then raise to allow a car to get underneath

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