[Kaolinite]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-under-video/

[!e.lo_]

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeRrU4_M3Q&feature=related

[InvisibleSoul]

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

[Greenstoner]

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

[ilvtofu]

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

[t8v6]

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

[winson604]

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

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.

[shenmecar]

that is a pretty cool concept.

[hal0g0dv2]

that is pretty sick concept

[LiquidTurbo]

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.

[hk20000]

^ 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.

[jackmeister]

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

[spoon.ek9]

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!

[MelonBoy]

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..

[flagella]

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

[insomniac]

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

[satek]

If only translink could think more like the chinese

[Qmx323]

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

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

[rawr]

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

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

[rsx]

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

[LG Hunter]

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

http://www.inewscatcher.com/timages/6eb1502bbf0db714156cfc8d8533bcf7.jpg

[TRDood]

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.

[kokanee_vtec]

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

[orange7]

I like it.

[TRD Rs200]

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

[vafanculo]

Imagine a car bomb going off underneath it
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[LexiSauce]

looks cool but cant they just build a skytrain? its the same concept anyway
plus what happens if it has to like.. turn left at an intersection?
they should just wait till they can make starcraft shuttles or something then build on that

[FerrariEnzo]

nice... its costly... damn.. it wont happen here in canada, thats for sure..

i can see a few problems with this..

first, in the video, it shows theres a sliding door for people to do up/down, can you say Decapitation?
second, this is just asking for accidents, especially with the height barrier. i can see people just hitting those.

[ApexSeal]

looks cool but cant they just build a skytrain? its the same concept anyway
plus what happens if it has to like.. turn left at an intersection?
they should just wait till they can make starcraft shuttles or something then build on that

for sure. and the medivacs would even heal china's ailing population.

[FerrariEnzo]

make starcraft shuttles or something then build on that

i think Korea has the rights to this

[double0seven]

I think it would be amazing if China could pull of this kind of bus.

[Spooling]

http://www.chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/11.jpg

[ToyotaPowah]

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

Canada also has 1/40th the population of China. This wouldn't make sense here.

Looks like a neat idea but I can imagine a couple of problems that would make this tough to implement into a city core.

[jackmeister]

Canada also has 1/40th the population of China. This wouldn't make sense here.

Looks like a neat idea but I can imagine a couple of problems that would make this tough to implement into a city core.

The good thing about China is that when they need to build a highway or something like this, they'll just go right in and pay out all those people that are in the way. They won't waste time with things like the Cambie street merchants.

[b0unce. [?]]

this thing has got to be pretty tall to be able to fit over freights and semi's

[Great68]

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

Took forever???

The project came in AHEAD of schedule.

How long do you think 17km of tunneled and raised track, including a bridge SHOULD take to build?

Please, share your massive experience of construction project management with us.

[Jingwu3]

Took forever???

The project came in AHEAD of schedule.

How long do you think 17km of tunneled and raised track, including a bridge SHOULD take to build?

Please, share your massive experience of construction project management with us.

you obviously have no idea whats going on in the world. constructions get done in Japan, China or any far eastern countries at least double the speed of canada, and their projects are much more grand than ours...

if you have been to these countries, our puny "canada line" almost look pathetic comparing to their skytrain systems.

[dipp]

That's smart!

[Unagi]

:thumbsup:

[Johnrb]

Seems like a neat idea. I could see how a careless driver could be making a lane change ahead of the "bus" and get creamed by a moving tunnel.
(however unlikely that may be)
Maybe he explained all the safety precautions in the video but i don't understand a word.

[jigga250]

http://www.chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/11.jpg

lol @ the out of scale jeep being copy-paste-inverted straight from an ad. Ghetto.

http://www.jeepextendedwarranty.net/images/jeep-commander.jpg

[static]

wouldn't they have to alter a lot of existing infrastructure such as power-lines, telephone poles, street lights, trees, etc? it would make more sense in some sort of new development.

then again i guess in China labor is cheap and plentiful enough to take care of the aforementioned overnight.