Reporting from Qinhuangdao, China — The contraption straddles half of a four-lane road. Arctic blue and nearly a quarter the length of a football field, the bus-train hybrid looks like a prop built ...
It's not that often that one of those crazy-looking transportation concepts you see on the cover of an old 1950s Popular Mechanics comes true, but I'm delighted to say that's happened. In China, a ...
Our pals over at Car News China have some close-up shots of the bus, the test track, and the test station that were built in Beidaihe, a beach district of the city of Qinghuandao in Hebei Province.
It looks like an awesome vision of the sci-fi future of public transit. But even though it doesn’t collide with cars, it might collide with reality. A handful of Chinese cities plan to begin testing a ...
The Hyperloop may help humanity travel great distances at remarkable speeds, but how should we sustainably get from point A to B in congested cities? An innovative public transport design looked like ...
Everyone was in thrall over the recent Chinese test drive of the “straddling bus,” a proposal for a public transport contraption that would operate above roads and allow cars to pass underneath it.
If you start seeing long worm-like vehicles swallowing up cars on Chinese highways, don't be alarmed. The country is just solving its massive traffic problem. These odd-looking vehicles are known as ...
Last summer, a seemingly cool "straddling bus" project in China made headlines. The futuristic thing swooped above traffic on rails at the side and center of the road. Well, after a whole lot of ...
You may remember last week when China shocked us all and showed off a straddling bus in working order mere months after introducing the concept. The launch seemed too good to be true, but people were ...
Six years ago, a video for a bus that operates above roadways–it’s actually more like a train–raised some curious eyebrows. Some dismissed it as impractical, while other saw it as inexpensive solution ...
A Beijing-based company Transit Explore Bus is currently building a life-size model of the Straddle bus in Changzhou and they plan to test it in July or August. Different versions will carry up to ...
A Beijing-based company Transit Explore Bus is currently building a life-size model of the Straddle bus in Changzhou and they plan to test it in July or August. Different versions will carry up to ...
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