Chinese media is a scam. This is probably also a scam but the Chinese media is only reporting it as such because someone refused to pay them off.<p>Much better link: <a href="http://shanghaiist.com/2016/08/08/straddling_bus_locked_up.php" rel="nofollow">http://shanghaiist.com/2016/08/08/straddling_bus_locked_up.p...</a> / <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251379" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251379</a>
(1) New ideas are often met with skepticism. I had found a promotional video that showed a better explanation of the tech involved. The rails was clearly there, as were the normal tires. What's seems like it will add the most complexity to is how there's going to be an elevator that rises up into the station and docks with it. There were other parts that look ingenious, such as traffic signals underneath the bus to communicate with the cars driving under there. [This is not the video I originally saw, but it is an English voice-over to a presentation about it: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8_W2PA0rQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8_W2PA0rQ</a>]<p>(2) I find it ironic that the state-sponsored Chinese media is warning people against it. Given their past history, I actually don't know if that is sincerely a warning to people not to invest in a scam, or yet another example of propoganda.<p>(3) And then, it isn't as if the Chinese business community have a high standard of ethics. I get that there are probably a lot of great companies in China, but generally, the culture tends to skew towards cutting corners and corruption.<p>I guess the question is, if we pretend the technology, on it's own merit, was attempted within say, the US, would it work out? There would be a lot of political push-back against adopting it, but I don't know if that necessarily means the technology itself is a bad idea.
The website hijacks you clicking on text and opening and advertizement window.<p>By the way, the bus won't work because it is higher than cars only, no trucks, no regular buses etc. I think modifying current infrastructure to pass only cars under specified height (and raising height for this over-bus) will be more expensive than the bus itself. Easier to just build a second level road.