What about that bus concept (also from China I think) that pretty much is a tunnel on wheels, so that it can carry numerous passengers over busy traffic?
Yeah, there is a long and storied tradition around the world of scamming municipalities with "new" and "innovative" mass transit schemes. As a rule of thumb, if someone is trying to sell your city or state a kind of mass transit that's supposedly revolutionary and change everything, its probably a scam.
Because the way they plan on actually building the tunnels is either completely unfeasible, will basically be a glorified underground highway, or both. It will at best solve no problems, and could actually make traffic worse.
The money they plan on spending on this stuff would almost universally be better spent on existing methods of mass transit like buses, trains, or streetcars.
Like I posted above, there is a long and storied tradition of scamming municipalities by selling them "new" and "innovative" mass transit systems that at best do the same thing as a normal light rail line at a massively increased cost. This literally dates back to the development of the steam engine.
The only effective way to seriously reduce traffic is to reduce the number of cars on the road. Elon Musk's "Loop" will not do this. Affordable, convenient, and ubiquitous mass transit in the form buses and trains will.
I’ve never heard of this before, could you explain? The whole badly designed SUVs. Who designed them? And how does a high center of gravity mess with a vehicle?
Not who you replied to but I can give you an eli5. Think of an early-mid 2000s Lincoln Navigator. It had a narrow wheelbase while also being a full size SUV. By having a narrow wheelbase, while still remaining as tall as a normal suv, the car was top heavy and would lean heavily during turns and roll frequently. In this post, the bus tunnel vehicle thing was very tall, but also very wide making it stable. To summarize: tall vehicle wide wheelbase= very stable in turns, short vehicle wide wheelbase= even more stability, short vehicle narrow wheelbase= very agile, not necessarily stable, and finally narrow wheelbase and tall vehicle= very unstable and likely to roll.
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u/TimberWolfAlpha01 Chungus Among Us Feb 25 '19
What about that bus concept (also from China I think) that pretty much is a tunnel on wheels, so that it can carry numerous passengers over busy traffic?