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Test of Elevated Bus in China

posted by janrinok on Thursday August 04 2016, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-knock-it-till-you've-tried-it dept.

butthurt writes:

previously: Straddle Bus 'Eats' Cars As it Speeds Down the Highway

Shanghaiist reports that an example of the TEB-1 (Transit Elevated Bus) has been built and has been tested on a 300 m track. The bus is of an unusual design: 7.8 m wide, its wheels rest both sides of a road, with the main part of the body high above street level so that other traffic can pass beneath. It is electrically powered. Passengers enter and leave via raised platforms. Its capacity is variously reported as 300 or 1200 passengers.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:59PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:59PM (#384294) Journal

    Obviously a route that can't accommodate vehicles as tall as 13'6" can't be done. Clearly this can't be used anywhere in the real world! I mean, what are they expecting big truck drivers to do? Make sure their entire route has enough vertical clearance? Not use certain lanes on the highway? Madness! The economy would grind to a halt! Just another example of leftist socialist delusion!

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:27PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:27PM (#384306) Journal

    Chinese people are smaller, so OBVIOUSLY, truck drivers there will be smaller and so will their trucks.

    Leftist socialist delusionalists are also smaller there.

    /sarcasm indeed! but my sarcasm is big because I AM CANADIAN! Now where'd that Budweiser go?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @12:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @12:35AM (#384321)

      What happened to Molson and Labatt's? No, wait, I don't want to know. :(

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 06 2016, @12:34PM

        by Gaaark (41) on Saturday August 06 2016, @12:34PM (#384743) Journal

        Anymore, if you want 'Canadian' beer, you gotta go small craft or make it yourself. :(

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