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[FreedomFighter]

I'd be scared to make turns under that thing.

 

[haxan7]

I'd be scared to make turns under that thing.

Seems like it would work best with driverless cars

 

[MrCunningham]

Seems like it would work best with driverless cars

If the bottom lane was reserved for driver less cars, then that would be pretty bad ass.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

Perfect in a future with self driving cars.

 

[3dmodeler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGAS_i7OVSU

Video footage of what it looks like inside the bus and what it looks like underneath.

 

[Stinkles]

Lanes? In China?

This

 

[GameAddict411]

It has to have tracks or else it can get tricky since drivers beneath the bus won't know how the bus driver will corner. I also don't think driving this thing will be easy at all considering how wide and elevated it is from other vehicles. I am not sure if the height is good enough for big trucks, but it's definitely a great idea.

 

[Xenus]

It has to have tracks or else it can get tricky since drivers beneath the bus won't know how the bus driver will corner. I also don't think driving this thing will be easy at all considering how wide and elevated it is from other vehicles. I am not sure if the height is good enough for big trucks, but it's definitely a great idea.

The problem with such a design is high center of gravity. The reason for the tracks is probably more to prevent rolling then any other reason. It'd be very easy to roll the thing in a turn.

 

[E-Cat]

Why not have it wash your car while they're at it?

 

[GG-Duo]

Well, look. It's now being reported that the whole thing looks to be fake or in very rough shape. Some guy actually went there to take photos. The rail is only about 200m long and it doesn't have any metal on it.

Others are questioning the company's source of funding and the fact that the director lacks formal engineering training.

Ehh so take this whole thing with giant grains of salt.

Taiwan article:
http://technews.tw/2016/08/03/china-built-an-elevated-bus-that-straddles-traffic/

Original netizen post: https://www.zhihu.com/question/39303230

 

[Ether_Snake]

It's obviously fake. How do you manage to get off the damn highway with that thing blocking the way?

 

[Shiggy]

Just as international excitement began to build, however, the TEB story went off the rails. According to China's state media organs, previously big boosters of the project, the TEB was little more than a publicity stunt -- one of the dozens of peer-to-peer lending scams that have duped retail Chinese investors in recent years by promising unreal annual returns.

The bus bust has thus become a symbol of a different -- and far more damaging -- kind of Chinese ingenuity. The TEB's promoters promised investors 12 percent returns on their money, despite the fact that the prototype bus seemed likely to tip over, couldn't clear most urban bridges and wasn't tall enough to accommodate most vehicles underneath it. They could get away with it in part because those kinds of numbers are par for the course in China's P2P lending industry, which averaged returns of 13.3 percent in 2015.

The idea for an elevated bus was cooked up long before anybody had heard of online P2P. In 2010, its inventor claimed that the TEB was about to undergo a much-touted trial in Beijing. That test was canceled amid doubts about the technology and the integrity of the people behind it.

Lacking funds, the TEB disappeared until the technology was acquired last year by Bai Zhiming, a property developer with no background in mass transit. He resuscitated the project using a P2P lending platform, Huaying Kailai, that raised $26 million promising high returns to be paid out years in advance of any potential deployment of the technology. According to an executive at Huaying Kailai, at least 200 investors have now requested refunds.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/arti...-s-super-bus-exposes-dark-side-of-p2p-lending

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

lol

 

[Da-Kid]

This thing just does not look plausible.

 

[Rentahamster]

Straddling Bus? Here I'm 'Merica, we call it the Cleveland Steamer.

 

[2real4tv]

Yeah not practical for most roads. How would trailers by?