China's 'elevated bus'

Chinese Elevated Bus Complete The  Road Test

 Every big city got a problem of heavy transport traffic. China got the largest population, so the traffic problem can seriously injure speed of the city.

 Chinese engineers have found a really futuristic way of solving this problem. They decided to build a bus (in my opinion it mostly  looks like a tram) that would allow cars to drive under this bus without stopping and waiting.

  Why the bus? Well because to build an underground subway takes a lot of time and money. Building monorail system is not the cheap as well and would not remove a large amount of buses of the roads. So this bus looks like the most rational way of solving Chinas traffic problem.

  The 2-meter high standing bus canPowered by electricity, the bus is able to carry up to 300 passengers in its 72ft (21m) long and 25ft wide body. The vehicle is expected to reach speeds of up to 60km per hour, running on rails laid along ordinary roads.  It also got huge amount of electricity generators and charging stations on each bus stop which makes this bus safe for environment and nature. It also equipped with emergency brakes system, and its windows can transform into emergency slides which can help people evacuate less than in few minutes.

 During test, bus run on a 300m-long controlled track in the north-eastern city of Qinhuangdao.

 “I wanted to officially show people that this is entirely possible and that the bus can be up and running,”    Song Youzhou, the designer of the straddling bus, said in a telephone interview from Qinhuangdao.

 “We were inspecting and testing the vehicle for a range of functions, like ignition, braking and other processes, to see if they all work together and there are no problems,” Mr. Song said.

  I think this bus can show us the outstanding power of human mind and imagination force that can make our life full of technologies of future that will enhance our life and solve a lot of problems.

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