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Police in Beijing have arrested 32 people for illegal fundraising linked to a scrapped project to create a "straddling bus" to beat traffic jams.
The futuristic idea to lift commuters above congestion quickly attracted international attention when it was launched last year - but was finally scrapped last month.
There had been growing speculation that it was no more than an investment scam.
In a statement, police said they were working to recover investors' assets.
Source: BBC News
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday July 07 2017, @03:40PM
> Models can be 1:1.
Yes, they certainly can. I informed you that they built a functioning vehicle and linked to a story about it. It was built at full scale; it moved under its own power, and it carried people. In the story to which you linked, the model is obviously smaller than that, too small for people to enter. It's a miniature. I assumed that you didn't know they'd built a full-scale, working example. You had written:
Clearly you maintain that position. Perhaps my assumption was wrong, and you intentionally linked to the miniature, knowing that a working example had been built.