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Researchers in Netherlands are developing a superbus that looks like a Limo and goes 155 Miles an hour and runs on electricity.To catch the bus, passengers text-message the dispatcher,and are picked up anywhere they want along special speedways constructed for the bus system.
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The Superbus is a novel public-transport system being developed in the Netherlands by the Delft University of Technology. It is an electric bus designed to be able to switch seamlessly between ordinary roads and dedicated “supertracks", on which it can reach speeds of 250kph (155mph). It could thus present an alternative to much more expensive magnetic-levitation trains. The Superbus would be driven in the usual way on roads and an autopilot would be engaged when it reached a supertrack.
The individual doors also allow for rapid loading and unloading of passengers, which will need to be fast if the Superbus is to live up to its promised door-to-door mission: instead of making predetermined stops, the vehicle will pick up and drop off passengers based on their text-messaged requests.This kind of flexibility is a central tenet of the project; the estimated three-year lifespan of a Superbus (as opposed to thirteen years for a standard European bus) will also allow the latest technologies to be phased in quickly as they become available.
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Posted: 2006-10-10 18:09:32
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These are being built in time for the Beijing Olympics!
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Posted: 2006-10-10 20:29:24
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thats madness!
i want one..
fatreg
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Posted: 2006-10-10 23:37:22
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Beijing Olympics? in the year of 2008 then? wow this bus is happening!
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Posted: 2006-10-11 01:39:22
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Yep at the Beijing Olympics in 2008....But if this is a success it will proberbly take another few years before it fully available everywhere else!
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Posted: 2006-10-11 02:28:06
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man..i knew that it wont be that soon
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Posted: 2006-10-11 13:05:00
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well at least its not that far off that will never get to see it.....i'd say about about another 10-15 years and and we should be all be going to work in one of these...hopefully!
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Posted: 2006-10-11 16:08:07
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yea mate you're right.. fingers crossed
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Posted: 2006-10-11 16:16:12
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I love the Limo look of this....still can;t believe this is going to be a bus,bring on the future!
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Posted: 2006-10-13 06:29:38
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oh my.. GOD!!
double fingers crossed!
that's a heck of a bus dude..
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Posted: 2006-10-14 01:42:37
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