China Plans Huge Buses That Can DRIVE OVER Cars

[MetroMan]

Article & Pictures @ HuffingtonPost

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

Holy crap!!!

 

[urbandreamer]

Sheer brilliance! Now, is there a front end attachment, so the bus can "eat" the cars like a combine harvester?

This would work well on the 401 corridor. For example, to move goods rather than people. Imagine "tractor trailers" driving over you?

TOareaFan--please read the link to understand all the details--it does bend, quite easily.

Link to video demonstrating how it works:

[video]http://www.umiwi.com/player/flvPlayer.swf?flvID=1541&autoPlay=0[/video]

 

[TOareaFan]

I am guessing that this thing never has to turn? That rail at the side of the road might be in trouble if it does!

 

[M II A II R II K]

Replace Transit City with this

[video=youtube;V-RFY6WUzQM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-RFY6WUzQM[/video]

 

[urbandreamer]

Certainly would work well as a link to the airport, from Kipling Station via 427/Dixon Rd and from MCC to the airport, etc.

But the TTC engineers will say it can't be done.

 

[EnviroTO]

Besides turning powered wheels embedded in a thin non-bending wall, the inability to exit a freeway without a stop light, the need to raise every bridge on the route, the risk of drivers drifting into the wall for a myriad of reasons (one minute a white dotted line, next minute a tunnel), the elevated station construction, and the added cost of requiring buses built on stilts it seems like a pretty practical replacement to a bus. Although a daddy-long-legs bus would be better.

Silly TTC engineers not rushing to roll this out. What is wrong with them? First they turn down swan boats and now this.

 

[M II A II R II K]

Put them on the DVP, and plus the bridges are quite high up above the highway.

 

[victor]

The Catbus. Yay!

[video=youtube;hdJrUuoU53s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdJrUuoU53s[/video]

 

[EnviroTO]

The Japanese are always on the forefront of transportation technology. Our TTC engineers suck. Catbus is so fast and we are stuck with trolley rail.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

Article & Pictures @ HuffingtonPost

this is what happens when you breed a subway train with an elevated rail line.

 

[M II A II R II K]

It could work better on highways with more than 2 lanes, so if it runs in the inner lanes so it wouldn't effect people entering and exiting.

 

[picard102]

Wow, this can't be serrious?