{"id":176303167,"date":"2010-08-03T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176303167"},"modified":"2010-08-03T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:06:07","slug":"china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-under-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176303167","title":{"rendered":"China to build ginormous buses that cars can drive under (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Lai<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hugebus202082010.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"float: right; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 4px;\"><\/span> Seriously, this is the future that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/china\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China&#8217;s<\/a> envisioning: huge friggin&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/bus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buses<\/a> engulfing smaller cars on the road. Despite the silly picture and the eccentric &#8220;3D Express Coach&#8221; branding, this cunning project by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/shenzhen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shenzhen<\/a> Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment actually makes sense. The idea is to make use of the space between regular-size cars and bridges, thus saving construction costs as well as minimizing congestion impact by allowing cars to drive <em>underneath<\/em> these jumbo buses. Fancy hitching a ride? You better start planning your move to Beijing&#8217;s Mentougou district, which is where Huashi will commence building its first 186km of track at year&#8217;s end. For now, enjoy the Chinese demo video after the break (translation text at source link).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/08\/02\/china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-under-video\/\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading <em>China to build ginormous buses that cars can drive under (video)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a>https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/08\/02\/china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-under-video\/<\/a>oldId.20100803130607483<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Lai Seriously, this is the future that China&#8217;s envisioning: huge friggin&#8217; buses engulfing smaller cars on the road. Despite the silly picture and the eccentric &#8220;3D Express Coach&#8221; branding, this cunning project by Shenzhen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment actually makes sense. The idea is to make use of the space between regular-size cars &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176303167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China to build ginormous buses that cars can drive under (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176303167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176303167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176303167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176303167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176303167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176303167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176303167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}