China’s elevated bus actually a huge scam, government says - TomoNews
QINHUANGDAO, CHINA — China’s much-hyped elevated bus which last week completed a test run in the northern city of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, may not just be impractical and unfeasible, as critics say. Several Chinese state media outlets now say the whole thing was an illegally funded project aimed at scamming investors. China’s Global Times tabloid also attacked the thing’s designer for having only an elementary school education. Nevertheless, this animation depicts the thing and explains some of its attributes. The Transit Elevated Bus, or TEB, is 22 meters long, 7.8 meters wide and can carry up to 300 passengers. It runs on rails laid on ordinary roads and occupies two traffic lanes. Passengers board the bus through an elevated bus stop. It is powered by both solar power and electricity. Through a technology called relay charging, the bus receives electricity as it enters a bus station. The TEB straddles the road 2 meters above the ground, which allows smaller vehicles to pass below. It is equipped with sensors on its front, rear and sides to warn vehicles to not get too close and large vehicles to not pass below. The TEB Development Company says one bus could replace 40 conventional buses and could save 2,640 tons of carbon emissions. Four buses could be linked together and operate in a train-like manner. The bus can reach a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour. However, the bus can only run on a mostly straight track and is unable to perform sharp turns. Although last week’s test received wide media coverage, the thing only traveled 300 meters at a slow speed, and without traffic beneath it. What’s more, the city didn’t even know about the test, let alone approve it. So this elevated bus, which is actually a train, may never get off the ground. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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The thing is, this ultimately isn't a bad idea at all, we live in a world where new ideas are extremely scrutanised, for good reason of course, but there isn't really any room to test concepts to their fullest abilities. The concept seems perfectly fiasable, it just needs refinement.
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Holy fuck did you just say that solar power and electricity were different things? Also what the fuck is that voice lol I can't seem to judge wether this dude is taking the piss with a voice like that or not...
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the prototype was found somewhere in the fields and devellopers have dissapeared with project money.
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"It runs on rails"
Right. So it's not a bus then, it's a train? -
In all honestly it's not all that bad of an Idea
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Good idea but poor design.
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This sucks if there's a truck on both sides then boom huge traffic so if ur stuck I feel sorry for u
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Not that bad idea yeah it's looks pretty cool and now I want to ride it!!!!!!
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Your voice is so fucking annoying
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I mean, it's pretty cool, when they fix all the safety concerns, I would go on that
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awesome concept, needs some tweaking, but awesome nonetheless.
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Sounds like someone did not play politics very well. Other than that, it's a lousy idea and poorly executed.
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talk all the shit you want murica, that's why there's no train service to LAX......
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this guy is a racist
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best scam.actually,it was kinda obvious that this is a scam,ITS CHINA!
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Ahh thats a Train.. just Changed design
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too bad, cause this could actually be useful in some US cities.
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I already called it. They do this shit all the time.
They've built entire cities that were designed to have millions of people in them, but they only have a few hundred living in them. They're always coming up with these "green" designs for futuristic electric cars, cities made of recycled materials with grass roofs or whatever, but they are thoroughly polluted to the point that all their children have birth defects, they can't build highways that can support their population, and all their cars are from the 90s. -
What the hell is wrong with your "voyze"? It sounds like you have multiple little strokes in each sentenzzzzzzze.
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same bullshit like hyperloop scammers
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