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I'm aware that pickup trucks are for the most part a north american thing, but a stock F150 would have only 3 inches of clearance to spare, a Ram 1500 would scrape the bus' undercarriage.
This both amazes and confounds me. As originally presented, the concept for this bus was technically infeasible--indeed, physically impossible. The early CGI videos presenting the idea showed the bus impossibly bending and stretching like magical rubber in order to make turns and follow conventional street curves. Just like a railway car, the straight segments of the vehicle must cut across the radius of any curve, which means obstructing the roadway and sidewalks. This is why railways have a certain siding width. The only way this vehicle can work in practice is on very straight thoroughfares and using curves of extremely large radiuses relative to the rigid segment length. You would really have to re-engineer a city's roads to make this work, adding these huge radius curves at the ends of the major thoroughfares it ran along. It seemed completely implausible to me. A blatant hoax.
And yet now there's a full size prototype after just a couple years of media hype. How does such an obvious concept flaw get overlooked to this point? How easy is it to get this kind of money for such half-assed ideas in China? American entrepreneurs couldn't do something like this. Even a relatively good and feasible idea of this scale would take a struggle of ten years to get to full scale prototype here--with the exception of those endorsed by celebrity oligarchs. And yet in bureaucratically suppressed China you can, somehow, do this practically overnight? You can spend all this money on an experiment? Either China has now far surpassed the US in its entrepreneurial boldness or there's some very strange story of nepotism or corruption underlying this thing.
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[–] MetalAegis 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'm aware that pickup trucks are for the most part a north american thing, but a stock F150 would have only 3 inches of clearance to spare, a Ram 1500 would scrape the bus' undercarriage.
[–] twentyfive ago
thats with stock rim and lift too
[–] Fambida 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't get how they expect to not disrupt the flow of traffic underneath... Cars aren't the only vehicles on the road.
[–] twentyfive ago
its just more utopia garbage
[–] EricHunting ago
This both amazes and confounds me. As originally presented, the concept for this bus was technically infeasible--indeed, physically impossible. The early CGI videos presenting the idea showed the bus impossibly bending and stretching like magical rubber in order to make turns and follow conventional street curves. Just like a railway car, the straight segments of the vehicle must cut across the radius of any curve, which means obstructing the roadway and sidewalks. This is why railways have a certain siding width. The only way this vehicle can work in practice is on very straight thoroughfares and using curves of extremely large radiuses relative to the rigid segment length. You would really have to re-engineer a city's roads to make this work, adding these huge radius curves at the ends of the major thoroughfares it ran along. It seemed completely implausible to me. A blatant hoax.
And yet now there's a full size prototype after just a couple years of media hype. How does such an obvious concept flaw get overlooked to this point? How easy is it to get this kind of money for such half-assed ideas in China? American entrepreneurs couldn't do something like this. Even a relatively good and feasible idea of this scale would take a struggle of ten years to get to full scale prototype here--with the exception of those endorsed by celebrity oligarchs. And yet in bureaucratically suppressed China you can, somehow, do this practically overnight? You can spend all this money on an experiment? Either China has now far surpassed the US in its entrepreneurial boldness or there's some very strange story of nepotism or corruption underlying this thing.