China's Straddle Bus is Officially Dead

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RIP bus. A street-stradding car-eating bus concept was built in China, but it looks like it will NEVER be real transportation tech. Kim and Jenna break it down.

"China’s straddle bus was hailed as the futuristic fix for the world’s largest nation and its correspondingly enormous traffic woes. The elevated electric bus, which was only tested for eight months before developers gave up, could move over the traffic, earning it the moniker of “car-eating bus.”*"

*Read more here: https://www.inverse.com/article/33522-straddle-bus-decommissioned

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