The Chinese Are Ingenious!! LOL!!!!

[Rakhmetov]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/669166


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/3d-express-coach-pictures_n_667452.html#s121537

[NecroCommie]

There is an engineer somewhere in China with phenomenally small penis.

[ckaihatsu]

Eeen Stah-leen-eest China tunnels enter *you*...!


x D

[IllicitPopsicle]

I'd freak out. No joke.

[ckaihatsu]

Uh... *cough* _vaporware_ *cough*....

*Someone*'s been one-upped by 3-D and p.r. -- would that be "3.D.p.r." -- ?

And all *this* can be yours for *only* $73 million...! *Next year*...!!! Get excited, comrade consumers!


"The first 115 miles of track is set for construction in Beijing's Mentougou district starting in late 2010. The Chairman of the Huashi Future Parking Equipment company boasts it will take only a year and 500 million yuan (around $73 million) to build the futuristic transportation system."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/669166#mwpphu-container

[RedStarOverChina]

If you had suffered through Beijing's traffic jams you'd know this is pretty much necessary.

[ckaihatsu]

On the other hand, I *have* been looking to upgrade from my Hummer...! Less damage to the rest of your cars *this* way...!


x D

[RedStarOverChina]

It says it "will save 30% energy". Though what that means I have no idea.

What's with all this technophobia I sense around this?

[ckaihatsu]

Just think of the new era of car-chase flicks this invention will enable...! Win-win!

(Etc.)

[Red Commissar]

Yeah, like RSOC said considering the conditions in the city these kinds of solutions will be necessary. If it becomes a reality, it'd surely be freaky seeing one going over you.

[DecDoom]

Shit, I hope we get those in the US!

[danyboy27]

i love the chinese.

[The Vegan Marxist]

I cannot lie, that's pretty kick ass!

[scarletghoul]

What a great idea.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

That looks incredibly dangerous... only a matter of time before Chinese traffic accidents become legendary.

[The Vegan Marxist]

That looks incredibly dangerous... only a matter of time before Chinese traffic accidents become legendary.

Not if they let the workers take over the management of this new-coming industry! :thumbup1:

[Sir Comradical]

There is an engineer somewhere in China with phenomenally small penis.

LOL, it is quite phallic.

[Invincible Summer]

Why is this in Worker's Struggles?

[scarletghoul]

LOL, it is quite phallic.
any mass public transportation device is gonna look kinda phallic, unless it has wings.

But if you really did want to go with a vulgar freudian analysis you could make it much more interesting. There is obviously a vulvic element to it too, the massive hole. One could say it is designed as a kind of phallus and a vulva in one. Therein lies its dialectical genius; the designer has managed to surpass the trend of purely phallic mass vehicles (and the corresponding vulvic servants of these vehicles such as tunnels etc) and has developed a new synthesis in genitalian mass transport. No longer is the vulva confined to being a stationary servant to the phallus, it now assumes a dynamic role, moving freely and actually swallowing up phalluses rather than passively being entered by them. This empowerment of the vulva is made possible on by the cooperation of the phallic element. Furthermore, the phallus itself is made even more powerful due to its vulva, which allows it to pass other phalluses without stopping. It's capability to thrust itself, streamlined and elegent, is literally elevated above all others. So the synthesis of vulva and phallus in this wonderful machine ultimately serves to empower both of them.

Such a great idea like this is only possible in a communist-oriented society like the Peoples' Republic of China, I claim. Despite the capitalist market system there remains a collective and dialectical materialist outlook. The powerful central state, with complementary stimulation of decentralised local initiatives, is an effective structure of rule used by the CPC since the Mao days, and it seems to be this structure that helped this great idea to emerge. Another factor is the overcoming of backwards family roles and patriarchy. This is far from complete in China and has to some extent been reversed by the Dengist reforms, but it is still strong enough to allow engineers and designers to see past the narrow conservative roles of 'dynamic phallus' and 'passive vulva'. More generally, Hu Jintao's key idea of Scientific Development can be said to be behind this innovation. Only with the approach of Scientific Development can a country like China develop so rapidly and so creatively. This is a great idea that the west had decades to think of but didn't. That's because they did not apply the Scientific Development, with a strong central government and general creativity, and were instead focussed too much on private profit and transportation masturbation.

All the people commenting here who don't like it are just scared of the dynamic vagina.

[scarletghoul]

That looks incredibly dangerous... only a matter of time before Chinese traffic accidents become legendary.
Not really, it actually looks a lot safer than normal busses. These things are apparently gonna run on a rail system, so theyre less likely to go off course. Normal busses however are driven like other road vehicles and can crash just as easily. These things will require less human input and therefore less chance of crashing (lol its true). Also a car would not crash into it if it stayed in the correct lane. In other words for the bus it would be more like a train or tram, and for the cars it would be like a part of the read, a kinda moving tunnel. Good design, will not cause too much death

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Its hard to tell. I'm sure it will run well to begin with, but as the network gets older things could prove difficult. Personally, I can't wait to see this in action, it's highly innovative, I just hope they make it as safe as possible.
Theres as video of a concept in action here -

http://www.chinahush.com/2010/07/31/straddling-bus-a-cheaper-greener-and-faster-alternative-to-commute/

[Rusty Shackleford]

now all they need in urban centers are more over the road walkways for pedestrians so people dont have to face intersection hell like in NYC.

[The Vegan Marxist]

See, this new design just helps clarify my article, "Capitalism: The Inevitable Road of Destruction (http://www.revleft.com/vb/capitalism-inevitable-road-t138370/index.html?t=138370)", by pointing out what the complete re-design of a certain system can provide to the people.

[Invincible Summer]

any mass public transportation device is gonna look kinda phallic, unless it has wings.

But if you really did want to go with a vulgar freudian analysis you could make it much more interesting. There is obviously a vulvic element to it too, the massive hole. One could say it is designed as a kind of phallus and a vulva in one. Therein lies its dialectical genius; the designer has managed to surpass the trend of purely phallic mass vehicles (and the corresponding vulvic servants of these vehicles such as tunnels etc) and has developed a new synthesis in genitalian mass transport. No longer is the vulva confined to being a stationary servant to the phallus, it now assumes a dynamic role, moving freely and actually swallowing up phalluses rather than passively being entered by them. This empowerment of the vulva is made possible on by the cooperation of the phallic element. Furthermore, the phallus itself is made even more powerful due to its vulva, which allows it to pass other phalluses without stopping. It's capability to thrust itself, streamlined and elegent, is literally elevated above all others. So the synthesis of vulva and phallus in this wonderful machine ultimately serves to empower both of them.

Such a great idea like this is only possible in a communist-oriented society like the Peoples' Republic of China, I claim. Despite the capitalist market system there remains a collective and dialectical materialist outlook. The powerful central state, with complementary stimulation of decentralised local initiatives, is an effective structure of rule used by the CPC since the Mao days, and it seems to be this structure that helped this great idea to emerge. Another factor is the overcoming of backwards family roles and patriarchy. This is far from complete in China and has to some extent been reversed by the Dengist reforms, but it is still strong enough to allow engineers and designers to see past the narrow conservative roles of 'dynamic phallus' and 'passive vulva'. More generally, Hu Jintao's key idea of Scientific Development can be said to be behind this innovation. Only with the approach of Scientific Development can a country like China develop so rapidly and so creatively. This is a great idea that the west had decades to think of but didn't. That's because they did not apply the Scientific Development, with a strong central government and general creativity, and were instead focussed too much on private profit and transportation masturbation.

All the people commenting here who don't like it are just scared of the dynamic vagina.

This post is so epic. Please buy yourself a vice (e.g. cigarette, alcohol, drug) of choice. You deserve it.




I just hope they make it as safe as possible.



Well, who builds things with the intent to make it dangerous and life-threatening (other than guns)?

What are your concerns?

[Bilan]

As if this design wasn't based on an anaconda.

[jake williams]

I'll just note first off I'm not convinced this isn't a hoax. But that aside.

I think we seriously need transportation innovation, especially in cities so dense as many of those in Eastern China (and similarly dense cities elsewhere), and certainly I'm not against any new ideas in principle, I quite like this one. I do have a number of concerns, however. But if they and a few others can be overcome, I don't see why worry.

One is cost. I'm skeptical that a vehicle which apparently is larger and more complicated than classical light rail would in fact be cheaper to implement (is there a cost breakdown somewhere and a clear explanation as to why it would be cheaper?), especially if there is anywhere near adequate testing of the safety and efficacy required for such a novel concept. Another obvious problem is it's not at all clear, at least to me, how this would be implemented with respect to lanes and anything other than abstract, ideal roads. I find it very difficult to believe that this would be able to be implemented on tight, downtown streets where congestion is a particular concern. Would it straddle all lanes on a street? Presumably it could only be implemented on roads where the number of lines do not change. How would it deal with intersections?

Even if basically we're talking about a situation where you have a network of specially built highways designed for the buses' use (which kind of negates the idea that this is using existing networks, but I don't know how you would use existing networks), there are still major concerns about safety, eg. maximum safe speeds under the bus.

[Rakhmetov]

Will it be able to go over fuel trucks, eh? Might be dangerous. This thread I put in Workers' struggle because the fight for a cleaner environment is part of the class struggle.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

now all they need in urban centers are more over the road walkways for pedestrians so people dont have to face intersection hell like in NYC.

The fact of the matter is that although separation of pedestrian and car traffic was popular and propagated in many parts of the world in the 1960's (by using pedestrian flyovers and tunnels in areas), this practice has fallen out of popularity with post-modern city-planning and architectural degeneration.

In places, such bridges and tunnels have been removed to create an artificial "urban landscape" that seeks to mimic the traditional dense city, in a very plastic and failed manner (obviously).

Steel construction for simple over-bridges could easily be manufactured en masse and be applied usefully if there was a desire to make easier the lives of pedestrians. I for one hate crossing streets at level and waiting for traffic to pass...