China plan to build ginormous bus
 

China's been doing some impressive stuff lately.

I'm not sure if it's been posted but there's this concept with trains that don't stop. Rather, a section of the train is detached at stations and the rest continue on.

LoL... that's hilarious... buses that cars can drive under...

i think thats a pretty good idea, picking up people without holding up the traffic

I hope its more of a ginormous rail train than a bus, knowing chinese bus drivers...

lol...about time china comes up with their own ideas...or did they rip this idea off someone else?

I think it's an awesome idea. Don't tell me when your behind one of our fucking dumb ass bus drivers here in Vancouver you don't wish you had this option.

that is a pretty cool concept.

that is pretty sick concept

Might be pretty hard to engineer this thing. It's all fun and games until people start dying. Imagine what would happen if the release and catch and grab didn't work so smoothly.

Regardless, interested to see how this turns out.

^ you are talking about the no-stop rail system right? That's still well in concept...

but the enormous bus system itself is very feasible. It doesn't even run on rails, it's just a 2 lane wide 2 storey tall bus. The bus can carry 1200 people (or split the car up so you'd run a single carriage system of 300 people ea) too just like a on-ground jet. It makes sense in the city of Beijing where the population density is super high.

A 2 lane wide tall vehicle is just like an airport vehicle's size, and those seem to operate smoothly and well. The idea is that with this kind of bus
1. there's no road space use
2. there's no need for huge parking lots made for them they can be parked anywhere on the road without obstructing traffic.
3. it runs on city grid so it's 0 emissions yet it does not require the building of tracks.

The only down side I can see is probably the maintenance.....all routes have to somehow connect to a repair facility and if it ever breaks down on the road and fail to move on its own the 2 lanes will have to be blocked for repairs to commence underneath the bus (towing of such a large vehicle sounds impossible with a regular tow truck....maybe 2 tow trucks in sync motion?). Plus the next bus will not be able to come through...So if the bus breaks down a lot this wouldn't work, but if they write a blueprint and let the Japanese build it this might just be the ticket.....not chinese hating or anything but they can't build reliable cars just yet.

Quite an awesome idea, for sure. But the newly developed electrical charging system may not work that well IRL. That we will see soon when they have it all set up.

knowing chinese drivers, there will be 3 cars in those two lanes....

if an accident occurs under the bus, it would be a total nightmare

i like the bus idea! not only is it annoying to be stuck behind a bus, but i always get cut off by idiot drivers who don't properly shoulder check before trying to switch into my lane. had to dodge 2 cars in the same week and this happened in vancouver, not richmond!

hmm crazy concept.. but there putting a lot of faith in other drivers...
Would cost quite a bit or even very dangerous if a speeding car fucks up and nails the supports/sides of the giant bus..

i was thinking of this. Maybe we can put glass floor so people get to view live accidents underneath.

i like the concept.. here we only get the canada line that took forever to build...

If only translink could think more like the chinese

also we can look upskirt :) unless they ruin the fun and go with a 2 way mirror

wow, ignorant much? the chinese came up with paper, gun powder, printing.

that being said... i think this idea is very good and innovative. but what about the safety issues? if some car loses control under the bus and hits one of the beams supporting the thing, would it come crashing down? :S

definitely needs some guard rails or reinforcement on the bottom, but overall, it looks awesome.

looks good. although it said an underground subway more expensive to build than those buses, it is probably more efficient since it would be safer.

imaging 2 of those busses colliding... it wouldn't be a pretty sight.

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

I like it.

looks and sounds like a good idea, but highly doubt its happening any time soon