so they actually did it

So what is this?

>>55898699
china made a bus that travels above cars

>>55898699
Portable roof for your car, so that it doesnt get wet.

Wasn't this just an idea last year?

China don't give a FUCK about safety

>>55898686
3 months until someone is smashed by this.

>>55898686

cant wait to see pictures / videos of people being retards and crashing into it or getting run over.

>>55898686
Asians are terrible drivers so the only possible outcome I can see for this is tragedy.

>>55898730
As soon as I saw this, all I could think of are chink truck drivers thinking "meh i'll fit" and totally destroying that bus

>>55898754
Looks pretty strong desu. I think the truck would get wiped.

Two words
Turning radius

holy shit i have an idea

what about a bus
that travels over busses
that travel over cars

>>55898686
Is it on rails or wheels? I can't quite tell what the things under the wheels are.

Also, it should've been wider AND bigger - encompassing at least two lanes, and about 200 or so people.

>>55898770
its on a track you blind piece of shit

>>55898785
It holds 300

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>>55898773

>>55898785
Rails AND wheels. Rails before and after the wheels sets.

this is solar roads tier

>>55898711
Its a train, you git.

>>55898790
5 star post my nigga

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>spent the whole budget on bus
>forgot to make a station

After all those videos I've seen of their buildings and elevators and shit falling apart and killing people every fucking day I wouldn't trust those filthy Chinks. This is going to kill at least a dozen people within the next few months.

>>55898723 Noboby will know it happens. Chink government is pretty gud at censoring news and internet.

>>55898686
what if someone puts a bycicle on his car or drives a truck??

>>55898699
car wash

>>55898853
>train on wheels

>>55898686
Absolute madman.

>>55898862
Theres billions of them so a few hundred dead a month is nothing.

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>>55898894

That's a pretty low clearance, only A to B shitboxes will be able to safely pass underneath. Anything taller wont fit.

>>55898790
> tracks make the huge turning radius a non-issue
Are you clinically retarded?

>>55898856
lmao

>>55898950
There are four swivel points for the wheels.

>>55898894
>trains dont have wheels

More accurately, its a new vehicle that serves new purpose.

center of gravity is probably low enough that they can add a 2nd deck

it's only a matter of time before someone tries to transport luggage or a boat on the roof of their SUV and everyone dies

>>55898856
prob just a prototype

>>55898699

Suicide buses in China.

i can't wait for the inevitable footage of it killing some unfortunate chinks

>>55899334
i-it's just a beta!!1

How do anything slightly higher than a compact suv feel ok driving on the streets now? That thing looks so low...

>>55898862
In China the way auto insurance works, at least for truckers, it's bettecheaper to kill someone in a traffic accident than to pay their med bills the rest of their life.

It's why there are so many videos of trucks accelerating into their victims rather than attempting to swerve / stop

>>55898754
Or people having panic attacks with this thing above them and causing accidents.

>>55899334
Its a full scale prototype. It will take about a year or so to test out the kinks and patch it. Then the real rollout will happen. They will test out whether or not the height limit is good or not, whether or not traffic is impeded or not, whether or not, whether or not the scalability factor is there or not, and as well as the usual QA shits.

>>55898785
Never underestimate how many chinks will fit into a single space. Fucking 1 bed, 1 bath apartments in NYC are converted into 5 family dorms, illegally, mind you, for chinks to rent out.

>>55898686
>be chinese
>want to turn right on the offramp
>bus quickly closes the gap
>OOPS DEATHBUS GOT IN THE WAY!
>collide into interior bus wall
>smash into every other car underneath the giant bus of death
>next of kin gets sent a bill for the damage to the bus

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>>55898686
>A
>FUCKING
>ROUTER

>>55898686
So, no vans or trucks on the roads?

>>55898686
Can't wait for liveleak vids to start popping up of these things chopping chinks in half

>>55898686
>so they actually did it
China is the new USSR.
If they said they'd do something that's a matter of prestige, they'll do it even if it's not practical or causes problems.
Then there's the fact that just like anywhere else, if there's government money to be spent people will spend it (ghost cities etc. doesn't matter, boosts GDP makes good propaganda)
And of course China is corrupt as fuck, you can rest assured corners were cut and aparatchik pockets were lined. Lots of chinese will die in stupid ways just like they always do.

how does it turn? I imagie turns have to have a pretty big radius, far larger than normal trains

>>55899477
you forget the chink equivalent of a redneck, that undoubtedly will move they entire apartment in the back of a truck

>>55898856
I'm fucking scared for drivers now, just look at the height of the people in front and if they are any where near the standard Asian height then get rekt any car over 1.50m

>>55898686
Fucking absolute madmen.
>>55898699
Newshit.

If I was a driver there, I'd freak out every time this thing passed over me. I foresee many casualities in the upcoming days

>>55899597
>I'm fucking scared for drivers now

just like an AMD fan haha

>>55899452
cant unsee it now

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>>55899477

>>55898686

Why do people keep calling this a bus?
It requires specialized rails. It's a train. A raised train where the tracks are still at street level for some reason.

It's a pretty shit idea.
And they could have literally just built a raised train/trolley track and been done with the project by now. Requires as much/less construction time. And it wouldn't be a proprietary mess.

>>55899630
My 7990 have a perfect driver, he called pajet and is beta as fuck

>>55898894
You think trains are on skis or something?

>>55899693
A train is a chain of vehicles pulled along by a locomotive, this thing is a single vehicle and it is self-motive.

>>55899526
>if its not practical
I'd say its the opposite. You don't give China enough credit.

China has issues with quality control on its cheap shits that it exports. However this doesn't translate into well funded, well structured government projects.

They have quite a bit of corruption issues that effects their ability to manage things efficiently, and even with those issues, their efficiency is beyond that of the western countries. That is, they haven't reached their ceiling yet.

Their economy is real and not just artificial, although there's some artificial booms like the housing market.

>>55899667
>no trucks
But how are you supposed to deliver goods into grocery stores located downtown?

>>55899776
"Self-motive"? I'm pretty sure it doesn't run on the power of goodwill.

>>55899780
China literally executes corrupt politicians, that's they are so efficient and good. There's virtually no crime there either, even in major cities. God bless that country. I'd move there without thinking twice if I had the chance.

>>55898686
the absolute madmen !

>>55898686
what happens if your car has a roof rack?

>>55899780
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-railway-fraud-idUSTRE7AD08U20111114

>>55899792
Are you from the 60s? Ever heard of delivery drones?

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communists have nothing better to do than make giant things to support government grandiosity

>>55899776
How about tram?
Or 路面電車

>>55899780
>I'd say its the opposite. You don't give China enough credit.
I think you've not looked into it hard enough. Your picture of China is the image the CCP tries to paint for it, not the reality.

>>55899844
Let's call it metro-bus

>>55899452
Fuck

You know how in China if you knock someone down you have to reverse over them until they're dead or face legal repercussions?

Well that's not going to go well with this monstrosity.

>>55899917
To be fair the same thing happens in the US.
If you conceal carry and you feel threatened enough to pull out your gun, your attacker must be dead or else you will go to prison because all the stand your ground laws won't protect you.

>>55899809
It would be fine if you're upper wealthy Han-Chinese. If you're lower end or one of the ethnic minority, you'd be pushing the cart.

If you're a foreigner, be prepared to be taken advantage of, conned.
>>55899825
If same thing happened in US, the executives would get bonuses and the tax payers would have to pay to fix the issue.
>>55899861
No, the CCP propaganda of China is too rosey. Meanwhile the western media propaganda image of China is one of paper dragon. (Ironically China sees the west as a paper tiger).

Reality is China has come a long way and each decade, they make huge leaps in economy. The communist party is corrupt with nepotism being rampant, but because they're mostly well educated and want to advance their country/family/political beliefs, they would try to create a better system each time.

China today is lot more free'r than it was 10 years ago. China 10 years ago was lot more free'r than 20 years ago, etc. By free'r, I meant economically and culturally. Each decade they become more and more prosperous and at the same time, more and more liberal.

Their state still has hardlines that push hardline shit, but the big picture is getting better and better.

>>55899865
>>55899809
>>55899776
>>55899693
Its Chinese name is 巴铁. It literally bus-rail. Now fuck off.

>>55899972
>American law literally says you HAVE to shoot people

wew

>>55899828
>drones
>picking anything heavier than a go pro cam
Pick one.

That monster is going to provide liveleak with quality death and destruction.

>>55899987
And their word for sword is literally "big knife", literal translation into English doesn't work.

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>>55898894
>ruby on rails

>>55899809
>>55899809
>China literally executes corrupt politicians, that's they are so efficient and good.
Literally everyone in the Chiense government is corrupt. Charges for corruption is just a facade to cover up political purges

>>55899818
Then don't just fucking drive into it. Come on!

>>55898686
when is the last time the chinks actually made something new that worked?

if some swiss company made this goofy ass thing then it got copied, maybe I'd have a little faith.

I honestly have trouble believing that nobody was killed during the PR photo shoot.

>>55898686
The Decapitator looks like it's a great idea. Better not be tall or on a bike when some squinty fuck speeds his mobile deathtunnel down the street.

>>55898721
Or it was China's idea for many years and Americans, as usual will want credit and patent everything for themselves.

I want my oil back.

>>55900574
Gonna bring up gunpowder again? You little yellow shits keep harping about how long you've known about gunpowder, but in all that time the best you could do was make facy fireworks. It took a white man to aim it at an enemy and now all you hear from China is a muffled 'but we kew about it first'.

What the fuck is with all the racism in this thread?
It's against the fucking rules. Kill yourselves.

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>>55900634
Telling me to kill myself is also against the rules.

>>55900672
and also a credible threat according to police

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>>55900714
It is? Where?

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Inside. Looks pretty comfy desu senpai.

>>55900787
>comfy
>exposed wires
>tape on rail bases

.... nope

>>55900616

China had rockets that fired at people.

Why are cheese niggers such hating ass human filth. WE WUZ INVENTERS AND SHIT

>>55900066
>implying swords aren't just big knives

>>55900787
>mobile deathtunnel
I don't know why I'm laughing so hard at this.

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>>55898894
>trains never had wheels

>>55900787

it wont look "comfy" when there are 1000 people in it

>>55900787
Can you imagine this:
>it's 2 in the morning
>the windows are covered with red curtains
>the inside is lit with mood lighting, and there's a temporary bar inside with an expert bartender
>the music being played just slightly in the background is vaporwave

>>55899597
this and a guess it means no one can ever carry a rug or something in there car sticking out the window a bit

>>55898686

China can make this, meanwhile western are busy making Uber clones for care about build giant buses.

>>55900574
This is rich considering chinks give zero shits about patents and intellectual rights. China steals every idea they have.

>>55900787
>all that standing space
is this meme?

>>55901298
Honestly though fuck patents, that system is broken beyond repair.

>>55901155
>every now and then you feel faint jolts as the driver mows down another pedestrian that didn't conform to the new 165cm height requirement
>the exposed wires running down the right wing occasionally give off sparks, adding to the atmosphere
>you smell burning rubber and plastic, reminiscent of the Challenger disaster
>suddenly a jarring impact
>a crunching sound
>everything seems suspended in slow motion
>you feel yourself be catapulted forward
>you die
>the little drunk, yellow shit behind the wheel had, in typical Asian fashion, tried to overtake the driving tunnel before him

>>55901214
>western
>caring about public transit
nice meme
public transit was overthrown by the car industry lobby decades ago

It is true that this is (was) developed in China - just not in mainland, but Taiwan.

>>55898686
Not sure if gimmick.

Is this designed to compliment subways or to replace them?

>>55901351
>lobby

They literally in actual fact bought up and demolished pubic rail.

>>55901342
>>the little drunk, yellow shit behind the wheel had, in typical Asian fashion, tried to overtake the driving tunnel before him
underground bus racing when?

>>55901852
sorry, the media euphemisms have grown on me over the years

>>55898686
I wonder what kind of driving licence will be used to drive it

>>55901108
Once Upon a Time in Kino

>>55901460
You have been banned from /r/Shanghai

>>55899597

That guy looks to be above 6'. Clearance of the bus looks like 7'+.

>>55901915
>>>/reddit/

>>55901806
Replace them. It's not a gimmick for places like Paris or China, where putting subways down would be either impossible or so financially costly that its financially impossible to make a return on investment.
These are meant to be cheap & easy to implement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpU4RjjJ8k

>>55902027
There are ways to build subways underneath developed cities without causing disruptions.

Paris doesn't want to bother because they don't want to destroy the catacombs.

>>55902072
Its not just because they don't want to, its because they literally cannot. If they do, their whole city could crumble into the ground.
Nobody ever really bothered to map out the many, many mines that were dug under Paris. Nobody knows where they go, how many there are, how deep they are or how structurally sound they are.
Can't bring heavy digging ordinance into the fray.

>>55902160
Why don't they fill them with concrete then?

At this point, you wonder why hasn't a single earthquake totaled paris yet.

>>55902160
That's what happened with Amsterdam subway back in 1977 and their current subway project

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>>55899843
Yeah, fuckin' commies

>>55899388

They really are soulless

>>55898686
Seems to be very impractical; a single large sized transport vehicle with what seems to be a specific rail system, like cranes on a Quay. I would not be the person who'd make the infrastructural decisions around this vehicle.

Typical chink engineering. Flawed concept. How would two of these ride next to each other, side by side going in opposite directions. Takes up too much space even on highways. Are they going to build one that is even larger so it can move over the smaller one? 1/10

>>55900787

Imagine being on this thing, sitting in the center when it packed, and trying to get off when you've reached your stop

Seems like a nightmare

>>55902300
I fucking hate that thing. They should have just rebuilt the twins.

>>55898686
What if a truck or a vehicle higher than 1.8m is on the way?

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>>55902160

You know that there was a time when subways were mostly elevated in NYC, and There still are large segments of the MTA thats elevated

Most of Chicagos subway today is actually elevated as well

>>55902368
If they actually rebuilt the twin towers identical to the old ones, they would have a hard time selling office space.

It'd be like making another ship called titanic.
People will call it bad juju and avoid it like the plague.

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>>55902447

They should have gone full meme

>>55902424
>subways
>elevated

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>>55902447
Instead they've build a single huge tower with what seems to be defined more towards aesthetics than structure as a possible target.

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>>55902408

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>>55899452

>>55902408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkWTcDZFH0

>>55902408
It turns your vehicle into a convertible for free

>>55899452
Dude.
They couldn't NOT steal at least something when designing the decapitation tunnel.

>>55902699
Why don't these asshole city planners just raise the bridge?

>>55902301
If they do face legal consequences they'll just run off to their tax haven home in Vancouver. I wish someone would bomb the chinks.

>>55902743
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LNEQxJM9ZE

>>55898699
Portable tunnel. China doesn't have the luxury of tunnels like other countries, so the state invested in a portable tunnel which will circulate around the country so everyone who owns a car can experience driving through a tunnel and sounding their horn.

>>55902743
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS7WYn0qxzM

>>55899452
shit

>>55902620
What's the reason for that height restriction other than to fuck your shit up?

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>>55902699

bridges are so fuckin racis

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>>55902746
The market for dirty schoolgirl panties would explode.

>>55902804
>>55902767
If they can't move the train bridge, why don't they dig the road into a gentle slope so trucks can go underneath?

It's almost like they're keeping it on purpose for the tourism value.

>>55902832
Sewer underneath the road

>>55898723
The driver must be a true asshole to be smashed by this.

>>55902804
>other than to fuck your shit up?
why would you need more reasons? I imagine if I were a bored city planning official I would do worse.

>>55902863
>i'm going to create city structures specifically designed to destroy traffic and create millions in property damage to public property

>>55902804
There's an overpass ahead and the restrictor is to keep dumbasses from crashing into it.

>>55902300
Airplane when?

>>55898856
Wait. The thing is hardly taller than a human, how the fuck is that supposed to work?

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>>55902883
>i expect china to not be retarded

>>55902937
People sit down when in cars.

>>55900787
Looks like a huge amount of wasted space.
That doesnt fit the chink lifestyle of exploiting every little thing

>>55902699
Notice that yellow bar.
That bar only exists to scoop out the top of trucks.
If it wasn't there, 90% of those accidents wouldn't have happened.

>>55902986
Its the same height as the bridge Yellow Bar simply protects the bridge from the initial impact shockwave

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>>55903027
>initial impact shockwave

>>55902971
>Looks like a huge amount of wasted space.

That's because it's not crammed full with people yet.

>>55902971
That's because this is the prototype.
You can bet your unwiped asshole that the production version is going to leave about 1mm of space between people.

>>55902767
Seems like lowering the road would be the simple solution. Would it really cost that much to dig it down a 2 feet? Seems like a small project.

>>55898894
And the wheels go into tracks you dip

>Up to 4 can be chained together

>Be Chinese
>Driving to work
>Go underneath long chain of road train
>Traffic backs up
>Am stuck under stupid dark tunnel of bus
>Creaking noise
>Bus collapses on top of me because too many poor people got on
>Build contract went to shitty stinky builders in Gansu
>Trapped and being crushed in shitty china car by shitty china bus

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>>55902971
It's not actually in operation yet, they'll need every inch of that space and then some.

>>55902883
Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Getting under a moving tunnel with no lateral vision in a chinese metropolis filled with millions of cars pedestrians and bicycles

NO

>>55903094
>Seems like a small project.

Yep.
Which is why we don't have bridges like that everywhere.

I do wonder if the accidents are a recent thing caused by people blindly following their GPS instead of looking where they are going like they used to do.
Or if this has been going on for decades?

>>55898686
>be chinese
>want to turn right on the offramp
>bus quickly zooms up behind me
>OOPS DEATHBUS GOT IN THE WAY!
>collide into interior bus wall
>bounce and smash into every other car underneath the giant bus of death
>next of kin gets sent a bill for the damage to the bus

such is life in the people's republic

>>55903094
I looked into the their fix. They installed a laser that detects the height of trucks and installed lights and digital notice board that tells the trucks to turn.

It cost them $300,000.

I reckon they don't want to work on the road because of structural integrity issues when rail road bridge + sewer underneath. They'd rather trucks take detours.

>>55903226
Its been going on for decades far as locals are concerned.

>>55903226
Notice that it's mostly people with rental trucks and RVs.

Believe it or not, you do not need any sort of training or licensing to operate a fucking RV in the united states, even though it is it literally a FULL SIZE BUS in all but name.

If you have a class C, you can drive an RV.

>>55903229
>next of kin can't pay
>sentenced to 3 generations of work in a labour camp
>such is life in grorious china

>>55898856
look at that fucking apartment-tier minisplit ac shit in the fender

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>>55902760
What a world we live in...

>>55903249
>They installed a laser that detects the height of trucks and installed lights and digital notice board that tells the trucks to turn.

They already had a flashing light triggered by tall vehicles in the video.

Maybe it's more accurate now, but if it didn't fix it before I doubt upgrading it will.

>>55902578
It's actually Hella fucking reinforced

>>55903290
With their new system, if you drive up and you're too tall, it puts up a red light and forces you to wait 50 seconds with a sign saying "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN".

People are driving through anyway because they're not paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfSvIgIs_M

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>>55902825
Gets me every time

>>55903320
An understatement. I've seen parts of the documentation and that thing should in theory survive everything short of a direct meteor hit.

>>55903249
>I reckon they don't want to work on the road because of structural integrity issues when rail road bridge + sewer underneath. They'd rather trucks take detours.

In that case another simple solution would be to make it even lower, so it's completely obvious that nothing but cars can pass under.

The real problem is people thinking it's a normal height, and thus not paying any attention to the signs.

>>55902424
Subways are never above ground, by their very definition. That's what's classified as overground track.
A subway can lead to overground, but its no longer a subway track if it is overground.

>>55902883
or, it keeps semis the fuck off roads that are not made for them. fucking hate semis

>>55903390
if you change the bridge under people's noses and they're used to the old height, you're just going to get people killed because they literally DO NOT PAY ATTENTION

Meh, the chinese can make some good stuff. Recently a chinese company signed a contract with Massachusetts(MBTA) to sell them their trains.

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>>55898686
based chinks.

how can the rest of the world even compete?

>>55902050
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpU4RjjJ8k
That high pitch noise

>>55902160
>Paris doesn't have subways.

What the fuck did you just pull out of your ass?

>>55903438

Holy shit, the control deck is just a bunch of commodity laptops sitting on a desk.

Jesus Christ China.

>>55903506
I stand corrected. I didn't think they did.

>>55902223
>Why don't they fill them with concrete then?
have fun when it rains

>>55903535
I also doubt there are any mines near Paris.
The area used to be a swamp.

You're probably confused with another city.

>>55903524
Pictures?

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>>55903609
He must be talking about this.

Doubt it has anything to do with normal controls though.

>>55898686
What the fuck, it's travelling at ground level? I thought it was going to be on elevated tracks.

>>55899432
I've driven in Hong Kong. That pretty much happens everyday without deathbus' existance. Seriously there is like no law on the road and no one ever gives way.
Return to Australia- no longer wonders why chinese are stereotyped as shit drivers.

>>55902937
Do you stand inside the car while mommy drives you, you retard?

>>55903226
Swift drivers are the absolute worst at the blind GPS following.
>>55903252
Depends on the state, but sort of. In CA for example a class C license is good for a two axle vehicle under 26000lbs or a three axle vehicle under 6000lbs. A large class A rv usually requires a noncommercial license due to the size, weight, and frequent usage of air brakes. I lived in a 26' class A using a Chevy van chassis (P30 IIRC) for a year and that was dry and unloaded around 25,500 lbs. Even for one person it's a rather small RV, the bus chassis ones get incredibly heavy.
Mostly unfortunately it's just olds who never measure their vehicle properly that hit things and are oblivious to the issues with the size of them, not too many younger people go for a vehicle that costs as much as a house. Those that do tend to end up in much older ones, in poorly maintained ones or both.

>>55899973
Thanks Wu. 100 yuan dollars has being deposited into your account.

in China they just do it

in America you have to go through miles of red tape like some sort of 1960's era African dictatorship that takes you ten years before you can even break ground on the project

>>55899388
it works that way everywhere else, too

>>55898723
And?
Are you implying that car fatalities aren't already a thing?

>>55903731
This is true.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
>proposed in 1996
>approved in 2008
>phase 1 will be finished in 2029
Literally 33 years from concept to finish.

Cost estimate went from $9bil to $70billion over the span of the project, and its not even finished yet.

>Meanwhile in China,
>2010 concept proposed
>2016 full size prototype in motion
>only costs $4.5 per bus carrying 300 people each

Fucking American red tapes

>>55903954
while i agree that there's too much red tape in the US, china is on the other extreme. people are definitely going to get killed in the first wave of those things and it'll be obvious that rubber stamped proposals, briberies, and corruption had a hand in it.

a lot of shit is dangerous. the US errs on the side of caution. so does the EU for that matter. so does basically every developed part of the world. only in shitholes with extant overpopulation issues does the government seem to not give a shit about fragging a few of their own.

>>55903989
Depends on state to state.

Tesla is getting red taped all over, yet they're not caving in.

>cant sell to customers in some states
>consumer watchdogs want tesla to turn off autopilot

If your company can bull through the red tape, they will make it.

>>55898699
It's a train on rails.

It looks like that bus thing from Patlabor.

>>55898754
I think chinese trucks wouldn't stand a chance against it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D827IxEJVS4

unless they built this thing as bad as they build their cars, then nothing will survive

>>55904066
I think I could make a more stable origami truck.

>>55904066
It worked exactly as it should. You must save the cargo. Humans not important.

>>55904017
tesla's just navigating the red tape. this is the point of red tape; that self driving cars don't just get carte blanche just because there's not technically anything on the books about it yet.

uber is a good example of a company that's utterly failing (or refusing) to navigate red tape. they generally just ignore the regulations, show up, and then back out when there are enough customers who will be pissed off and writing letters to their representatives when the punishments and regulations take effect. happened in portland, NYC, and now austin. it happens a lot in china too except that china's leaders literally don't give a shit about the people, so uber's plan of getting customers to get upset at politicians for not letting uber do whatever they want ended up fizzling (oh and that happened to antagonize the leaders, just incentivizing them supporting didi kuaidi (not that they needed much incentive to support a chinese company, but there you go)).

i'm not trying to cast the red tape here as something that's good or bad. or rather, not just one. red tape is the institutional pumping of the brakes on dangerous, speculative rushing into markets (not just self driving cars, but drones etc...). that can be a good thing and a bad thing.

the narrative that tesla "are not caving in" almost seems to heroize tesla. they're just a company going through the paperwork to get approved to do business. don't dramatize it.

>>55899667
what the fuck i live near this. who photoshopped out the 500 orange barrels, three mile line of southbound traffic, and all the debris and potholes?

>>55898686

It's no worse than somebody hitting a car going in the opposite direction. Yea, it's basically an unstoppable force compared to a car, but so is not paying attention and driving off a bridge.Just pay attention when you drive and you'll be fine

>>55900787
from >>55898791
>It holds 300
so 75 people per wagon? doesn't look that bad, yeah

>>55899792
- taking another route (the city hasn't banned trucks; it's just that route. don't act retarded unless you're not acting)
- smaller delivery vehicles for the last mile - allows you to parallelize smaller deliveries anyway.
- ???

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So what's going to happen when Chinese drivers inevitably crash everywhere under it, and drive their 10m-height cargo trucks through it?

>>55902578
i dont think you know a damn thing about architectural engineering

>>55904195
Trucks are probably already banned from certain roads due to congestion

>want to make right turn
>suddenly this thing drives over you

>>55898686
i wonder what that bus does when cars crash under it??? have they even considered that?

>>55904321
then just wait the 4 seconds it'll take to pass.

>>55898686
how many babies will be found inside the wheel by the end of the month?

>>55904654
are you counting the ones there from manufacturing too?

LiveLeak videos when?

>>55900574
japan had concept designs for these things in the 50s.

it's not a new idea, it's just a dumb idea.

wait until some moron chink freaks out as a bus goes over them, swerves, crashes, and there is a multi car crash involving those big wheel bogies on the side.

>>55900787

so much room to have your child shit on the floor

>>55903275
>how will we cool down the bus, HuFlungDung?
>we simply put air conditioner in the bumper, it will never go wrong

>>55903275
absolutely disgusting

This is what happens when the Chinese try to be creative and invent instead of just copycat+amplify an existing thing.

>>55899452
>Mobile Networking

>>55898686
do they have no street lights in china?

>>55898716
kek

>>55903813
jesus christ how much are you reading into his statement?

>>55905398
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiKGjnG01KY

>>55899843
>communists
>China

Pick one.

lmao

westerners on full damage control

>i-it's just a prototype!
>i-imagine all the deaths!!
>w-what if a semi decides to plow through the middle of the city??
>wait, you mean it's working?? white people thought of it first!!! all the chinese do is copy!!!

yeah get over yourselves

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>>55907088

>>55903989
>only in shitholes with extant overpopulation issues does the government seem to not give a shit about fragging a few of their own.
really. i must have dreamed about vietnam and iraq. never really happened, right.

oh that's right your government doesn't even acknowledge them as "wars", so they can be conveniently swept under the rug.

>floating bus is swarmed by 45 family covered mopeds and 27 mercedes G-classes

>wheels are gunked up to the point of malfunction with blood, guts, and motorbike parts

>45 year old women in the Mercedes continually crash into the bus and one another

>the entire track is strewn with vendors hawking their wares

>villagers dry out their crops on top of the bus

>passengers fill the bus with piss and shit to the point that its massive weight causes the structure to fall down onto the tuktuk drivers below

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>>55904041

>>55898856
qt at the bottom

>>55907156
>tuktuk drivers
>confusing your asians

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I'm not sure how to feel about this. It might just be my claustrophobia speaking, but it seems to me to be a little too short.

On the one hand, it's for cities where truck traffic can be restricted; I wouldn't expect 14-foot clearance or anything like that. And 7 feet is about average clearance for a parking garage in the US.

But still, couldn't they have given it a little bit more clearance? Of course I didn't engineer this thing, but I don't think another foot or so higher would've hurt it.

>>55903789
Nope. Australia has mandatory third party insurance as part of licence renewal. So insurance pays for the other person

>>55899809
>No crime.
Someone was mugged in front of me, in broad daylight, in the middle of the street in guangzhou. Hmmm.

>>55903249
>I reckon they don't want to work on the road because of structural integrity issues when rail road bridge

Yeah road work would be a real threat to its structural integrity. Letting it get constantly slammed with fucking semi trucks it no biggie tho.

>>55898686
News flash
Turns out this is another social network base illegal crowdfunding scam

>>55898746
that's a dumb stereotype, if you've ever seen drivers in beijing maneuvering around pedestrians, cyclists, and other cars who have no sense of personal space you'll see it's not true

white boys can't even get a license there because they'll hit somebody during the road test

and if they somehow did, they would never get to work on time because they can't maneuver through heavy traffic

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>>55899452

>>55907966
source?

>>55908123
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/nd/2016-08-04/doc-ifxutfpc4398647.shtml

>>55900743
Commonwealth shitholes

>>55907382
Only health. you still have to pay for damages to property.

>>55908161
lel

sucks for the chinks who invested in it

>>55903954
>California
That was because car manufacturers did all they could to delay the project.

>>55899972
>your attacker must be dead
No, it just means you can't tell the police officer, "I shot him in the leg to stop him from chasing me, sir". In fact, finishing off your attacker will invalidate your self-defense defense.

>>55903363
In theory jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

>>55902699
I wonder how much money the city has made out of that thing.

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>>55902300
Desperate times call for desperate measures.

>>55900922
>>exposed wires

Where?

>>55907105
He's right.

>>55898686
what happens if two semis get behind it?

>>55902447
>manhattan
>hard time selling office space.
non-issue

>>55901856
>multi-passenger drifting!

>>55898746
Fun fact, Asian drivers in america are involved in more total collisions than any other demographic, but they are involved in the fewest fatal collisions.

>>55911582
>but they are involved in the fewest fatal collisions.
At the speed they travel that's no surprise.

I find the whole thing quite entertaining. Above ground rail has been a thing for almost two hundred years. Above traffic or even below almost a century at least as well. This is no different than say the L train in Chicago. You can even druve right underneath it. Chinks are so a fucking dumb.

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