Months after design was revealed Transit Explore Bus has inaugural run on test track in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province. A futuristic road-straddling bus able to glide over traffic jams and pile-ups has undergone its first test drive in China. Just months after its spectacular design was unveiled, the Transit Explore Bus had its inaugural run this week on metres of specially constructed test track in Qinhuangdao, a city in the north-east Hebei province, the BBC reported. He said the vehicle cost about a fifth as much as underground transit systems and could be constructed more quickly.
Song said in May that the buses, which are 21 metres long and more than seven metres wide, could transport up to 1, passengers. Several units can be attached to one another.
One TEB could replace 40 conventional buses, he said. It is not known how the system would coexist with lorries and taller vehicles. The world learned of the road-straddling bus when a model was showcased at a technology expo in Beijing in May. It generated enormous excitement in a country where traffic jams have grown as the country overtook the US to become the largest car market on earth in It was noted that a similar design — also by Song — had previously cropped up at the event in This article is more than 4 years old.
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