Massive car-straddling bus completes test journey in China (Tomorrow Daily 402)

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Future applications could include custom furniture or even structures that cross between high rise buildings like scaffolding for construction crews. Sorry I'm not home right now, a spider is making my home right now. Yeah, yeah exactly. That is amazing. It's really weird looking, but I also love the idea of having robots make me a hammock in my house- Yeah. At any time on demand. Make me a hammock. That's what I would. And then you could imagine like this sort of Iron Man future where we go from big structures to small things like clothes. Yeah. And you're just like, I'd like some gloves. Weave me, yeah, hey, Robot, weave me a t-shirt today. This is what I want it to look like. And they just make it for you. And it's- Hey, robot. Maybe a sandwich. That's the dream. We probably seen this concept a bunch, but now it's real. China's elevated bus, TEB1, made it's maiden test voyage recently. This is a massive bus that holds around 300 passengers and can ride over the top of cars. It's a massive machine spanning two lanes of traffic and measuring 22 meters long. Eight meters wide, and seven meters high. The idea is simple. The bus as a hollow section under its passengers that allow it to bypass regular cars sitting in traffic, leading to less congestion on China's packed roads. We saw the original idea in a scale model at the China Beijing International, High tech expo earlier this year but it looks like the project is moving forward faster than we anticipated and other governments with congested road ways are already investing in this mega bus. Yeah. It's cool, man. Can you imagine driving your car in the freeway and all of a sudden there's massive bus [LAUGH] It freaks me out so much. But how great would it be that if that mass transit actually, like buses, you're in the bus and it's nice to be driving but you still sitting in traffic. You're still sitting in traffic. What if the bus actually gives you A- Better commute. Better. Yes! Made it shorter. This is really the thing. And we see sometimes these sort of special bus lanes and things like that. But this doesn't need extra infrastructure. Exactly. You basically just need a road that is strong enough to hold the weight of a Giant bus that carries 300 people in it. Yeah. And a subway or a train can bypass traffic too but you need to build a railway. Extra infrastructure, exactly. This is something that can be implemented a lot sooner and faster which is really, really cool. I guess you just have to make sure there's not Stuff that's too low, you know. Yeah. Lineage, funnels. I think it's two meters, is the limit underneath. So their cars that are over two meters, or trucks can't go under there. And then also anything else that the bus needs to pass over has to be beneath two meters high. It's like the monster truck of busses. It is it's sort of the what's the most famous monster truck? I don't know. Is it Frankenstein. Yeah. I dont know. 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