Friday, August 13, 2010

"Straddling" bus


This is quite possibly one of the most innovative designs ever...in my opinion! It's a bus/light-rail system designed in China that is shaped like a tunnel so it can pass over traffic, or traffic can pass under it when it's stopped at a station. They have thought of everything when designing it....if a car under it gets too near to the sides it sounds a warning, if a truck that is too high to fit under it approaches it warns the driver, if it's in an accident all the sides open up and form slides as escape routes, they've designed for it to be boarded and alighted from either the sides or from the top...the list goes on!

Check out the video here (it is in Chinese but there's a translation and it shows you all the ideas)

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