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Given the speed it goes at, 40mph max it says in the article, I guess most of the time cars would be zooming underneath it. In which case, the scenario will be
by CannisterFlux 10y ago
Given the speed it goes at, 40mph max it says in the article, I guess most of the time cars would be zooming underneath it. In which case, the scenario will be that the bus-thing will block larger trucks from going past it as they cannot go under or around. Then those trucks will block cars, and the whole 2-lane traffic will slow to a crawl behind this monstrosity.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt seems unlikely that they would operate it on roads with significant truck traffic. I guess it might be hard to avoid roads that are used by delivery trucks, but they would be less likely to follow it for long distances (and in cities those roads would anyway tend to have speed limits closer to 40 mph).
- CannisterFlux 10y agoAh that's true, thinking were I live in Europe there are a few 2 lane main roads through the city, in fact I live on one, with that kind of limit or even less. No way you'd get up to 40mph there. This looks great and reminds me of something from Thunderbirds, but a normal bus seems much more practical!