Why the Straddling Bus Failed

[@NotJustBikes]

Ah, the straddling bus! I remember when this was first proposed I referred to its philosophy as, "I don't care where the poor people go, just as long as they're not in the way of my car."

[@InfernosReaper]

but even this is inevitably in the way of their car whenever it has to turn right and crashes

[@LexYeen]

@@InfernosReaper Not to worry! As shown in the renders, straddling busses are made of space-age rubber!

[@PlaystationMasterPS3]

but those people are never OK with just tunneling a subway line...

[@DarkSnideoftheRainbow]

@@PlaystationMasterPS3 Subways? What are you, some kind of car hating communist?

[@Coolsomeone234]

@@PlaystationMasterPS3 people always talk about cost when it's public transport, not roads

[@FrankFrancis]

Serious shout outs to the makers for inventing trains but worse

[@Newciouss]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYHKi56XiNebbZI

[@namef]

Wait till you see what they did to horses 💀💀💀

[@arahman56]

You mean Streetcars but bullshit.

[@TiagoMorbusSa]

Trains but worse is one of the best inventions of 2022

[@axios7603]

So when we inventing cyberpunk themed flying cars like practical ones

[@GeahkBurchill]

My favorite part is how the CGI straddling bus literally morphs into a curve as it goes around curves even though the actual bus has almost zero articulation.

[@evilemuempire9550]

But it uses high tech nano-fibre tubular modules that are simultaneously super flexible and super hard!

[@Floris_VI]

Ikr

[@BdR76]

3:45 omg you're right 🤣look at it, it bends like a snake, even the glass parts!

[@tabchanzero8229]

*FUCKING MAGIC™*

[@protorhinocerator142]

The concept has always been that way. You can look at it for 5 seconds and see it just can't work.

[@herebejamz]

When I first saw the Straddling Bus I immediately thought about trams. Trams are cool, and work well with light rail.

[@illiiilli24601]

Just make this a double decker tram (There's problems with that as well, but still better than this monstrosity)

[@TheJupiteL]

I get off to grassy tram tracks and I'm not even ashamed of it.

[@Broockle]

Trams are awesome. This elevated bus concept is not 😤

[@blakksheep736]

@@TheJupiteL 😆

[@blackman7437]

And don't require insanely expensive to build and maintain elevators at every station that can shut an entire station down when they break

[@Arkhavist_S]

Hey, listen, the Straddling Bus concept worked great for my city. Y'know, my Lego city. At age 9. If it encountered a problem, the rocket-powered VTOL was always there to just pick it up and set it into a better spot. Engineering is my passion.

[@colormedubious4747]

I implemented KITT's turbo-boost on my system. There's nothing more inspiring than watching a bus leap over a jammed-up intersection to land on one of the many, many bus-sized clear zones that modern city streets are famous for.

[@namef]

"Here at bad-ideas incorporated, our team of highly trained lego engineers are building future by making public transit, traffic jams, and road accidents all much worse, one shity cgi render at a time."

[@areadenial2343]

@@colormedubious4747 Knight Rider fan, I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@colormedubious4747]

@@areadenial2343 One man CAN make a difference.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Once we get around to my eight year old self's "Replace roads with metal alloy equivalents so maglev cars fueled by ions hover over them. Get on it engineers!

[@domesticcat1725]

Congrats for the people behind this project for combining all the disadvantages of buses, trams and monorail in one inconvenient package

[@blakksheep736]

Plus inventing new problems on top.

[@de-fault_de-fault]

My instant reaction to this idea a decade ago was "it's going to get trapped behind a truck within the first 3 blocks, and then it will just be a worse version of a regular bus." Good analogy about trying to chip away at the margins while never addressing the actual problem, too. Of all the "what if we made trains but worse" ideas, this might actually be the dumbest, which is really saying something.

[@warhammervietnam5770]

They defending this because in China, big truck are not allowed to get into China until after certain hour.

[@SaURoN-lh1dl]

"Of all the "what if we made trains but worse" ideas, this might actually be the dumbest" - Elon Musk: Challenge accepted

[@maytt07]

Or make trains go above roads idea, just need more clearance height, with more carrying capicity of any normal bus and equal to or greater than an BRT without having dedicated bus lanes.

[@shutout951]

Agreed. At least Elon Musk's las Vegas loop can't fall down on top of other stuff

[@VulpineCortex]

@@shutout951 I feel like Elon's idea is still dumber on account of narrow death traps filled with high velocity lithium batteries... Imagine a fire there...

[@KhAnubis]

When you want to avoid building trains so much you wrap around and invent a crappier version of a train

[@Roxor128]

It's like someone had the idea of elevated rail, and bungled the elevation part!

[@cikadaau5614]

I love your content!

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@Roxor128 They built a monorail but forgot the rail.

[@whym6438]

Or, as I call it, "pulling a Musk".

[@cy-one]

@@tjenadonn6158 It's a monobus?

[@Hotrob_J]

Lmao that sponsorship No dig at you, you gotta get that bread, but it had a vibe of "what if NFTs were real and not ugly???" to me

[@idfclutchnixon]

I love how the bus bends while going around the corners... even shinny CGI couldn't prevent my Bullshit alarms from going off...

[@KR4FTW3RK]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who noticed that. Normal-sized busses already struggle with corners. I wonder how a 7 meter wide vehicle would round a corner... altho I believe the answer is "it doesn't"

[@nukiradio]

Its made of the rare element: Bendium

[@TheBlacktom]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_bus

[@burgerfanman]

Well of course we have a solution to that: 100 joints on the bus that make it a living hell for passengers

[@inund8]

yup, its pretty bad

[@memereview305]

I saw it and immediately thought “Trucks exist”. It took me a fraction of a second to think of a problem that “the company of the future” ignored

[@nukiradio]

In the future there just arent trucks I guess 🤷‍♂️

[@henryginn7490]

It's worse than that actually. Trams and buses already exist doing almost exactly what this aims to do (and they also work), meaning that there is no use for this anyway

[@The_k81]

Also... Roof racks? Is this going to just scrape the bikes off the roof racks of my car, or?

[@SereneAncalime]

Dont worry theres a future solution. All trucks are replaced by Petite Trucks totally not just cars. All to solve the job crisis where everything everything else is automated. Sadly its 2075 here and we are still waiting for musk to release full self driving.

[@EmperorNefarious1]

I can imagine trying this in the US, where "If it exists, some idiot has lifted it." I've seen a sedan that would struggle to fit under the 2 m requirement.

[@lotllady]

Alright, here's my crazy idea. We can fix this design instead of throwing it out. What if instead of raising the bus, we raise the tracks. So the tracks are high above the road, allowing us to ignore the height of vehicles so even semi trucks can pass underneath. This change of focus also allows us to elongate the busses, adding more seating space. And, since there's no need to worry about blocking traffic, we can string the busses together in a chain. I just need a snappy name for it and it'll be perfect.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Maybe give it a single rail and call it a monorail! The hipsters will love it!

[@lotllady]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel That's good shit. Keep 'em coming. I'm also thinking about expansion. I hear there's plenty of space underground.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel the Bradford Monorail was a _perfectly_ good system, but you really want the Kearney Vertical Bi-monorail©®™ for extra stability at high speed.

[@zacharytracy3797]

Call it the Prime Rail Engined Carriage Utility Mechanism

[@wren_.]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel no, we could call it the bi-rail. Or the double monorail

[@colinhobbs7265]

An add on to the point about vans is that vans are one of the few vehicles that can't be replaced with public transportation due to the fact that they are often used for specialized business purposes like plumbing or HVAC. They will be on the road, no matter how a city is designed.

[@martinpenwald9475]

Indeed. The ”solution” to this problem would be to have roads specifically designed for the trafic, but if you have to do that, then why not a simple dedicated track for a light rail train or a tramway. In fact, before someone presents a revolutionary mass transit project, they should go in towns where the current systems are exploited. An example I know relatively well : in Northern France, in Dunkerque, the CUD (the organisation that control urban planning in the greater Dunkerque area) has decided a couple of year ago to make public transit free. But they decided to remodel all public transit lines (it’s only buses lines) to optimize transit time. It meant that some areas became pedestrian only, and trafic lanes have been suppressed. It works pretty well, and it’s very successful.

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

Also good for living in down by the river.

[@GlobstersMessenger]

There are a great many ways to move people around in an urban environment, but not so much cargo. Outside of the occasional smaller scale object moving systems, trucks, lorries and heavy moving systems are going to be an essential link between cargo rail, cargo plane and cargo ship. Even if it was reduced as much as possible (as even the dirtiest, biggest cargo ships still in use are still more efficient on emissions, cost, scale than combustion engine trucks for the same payload (can't speak for electric trucks... but the scale is so immensely different I would suspect so), you're still going to need to *move cargo around*, dynamically, without extremely specialized infrastructure literally everywhere. It really is the biggest most vital function of huge heavy road networks, equipment and supply movement.

[@krombopulos_michael]

Or for deliveries

[@GlobstersMessenger]

@@krombopulos_michael postal service in general. though obviously such a service isn't as utterly fundamental to every day life as it used to be. Secure document movement is likely to be an essential part of societies for a while and while ideas for "drone post" keep popping up and being tested, it seems like something that is in "eternal trial hell" for the moment.

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

I like how it would clearly need extra space lateral to the tracks to turn properly but the animation completely glosses over this by making the whole bus flexible

[@mentality-monster]

I noticed that, the whole thing bending like rubber!

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

when i saw that i was like:wow neat, it can bend and be more maneuverable, but now i understand they dont know how the fuck to make a solid veicle made of steel bend, and just did it for the animation

[@louisvictor3473]

Wrong. The extra lateral space would only be needed if the thing was made of a rigid material, not of bullshit.

[@NinjaThatLongboards]

@@louisvictor3473 🤣🤣🤣

[@drew899]

Imagine the bus goes for a turn but the cars underneath it want to go straight

[@cyrusol]

Please don't advertise Masterworks. Art is an even bigger bubble than housing.

[@AsleepAura]

Adam, we appreciate you pointing out all the technical flaws, but you missed 1 important flaw. No one in their right mind would be ok with being underneath one of those things in their car!

[@Max23465789]

100% agree that was my thought at first sight even before any of the other issues were brought up!

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

Imagine being swallowed by that thing. Instant Panic attack.

[@MrJstorm4]

So my neighborhood streets are three car widths wide and you can park on either side of the street so when two people had at each other going opposite directions they slow down till like 5 mph because their margin for error is maybe a hand width on each side. This bus wants to replicate that on probably a 30 or 40 mile per hour strode.

[@whimbox9648]

@LastName Almaember spam bot, they're everywhere. Report it

[@BlazeMakesGames]

the other big problem I noticed was the hilariousness of this thing having tracks that go through an intersection. Like they show it turning in an intersection but it covers 2 lanes, including you know, the lane not the designated turning lane? Which means you might be sitting under this thing waiting to go forwards, only to suddenly have the thing crash into you because it turned while you didn't and you had no way to tell that that was going to happen. Even if you argue that it would have indicators underneath itself, the car will undoubtedly accelerate faster, so you could end up having the bus crash into the back half of the car as it starts to pull ahead.

[@jacobbronsky464]

I love how the thing is completely supple and flexible in the 3D renders that make it take turns way too sharp for its width.

[@teslashark]

Bingo!

[@TheBlacktom]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_bus

[@69Buddha]

It's made from 100% recycled gummy bears.

[@racistgamer123]

E

[@curtiswong7280]

Also the fact that any cars going under it will have do to an absolutely *perfect* turn without any deviations from the lane in order to prevent crashing with the thing.

[@operatchick6486]

You could do a full 30 minute video on every single Dahiir Insaat idea. They range from unfeasible to literal nightmares to warcrime machines.

[@FinlayDaG33k]

Remember, it's 7m wide and each carriage is 12m long, so to take a turn... well... you are gonna need a stupidly large radius (otherwise, the "rear" of a carriage will swing to one side too much)... Whiiich is why very conveniently in the animation, each carriage appears to be made of rubber :^)

[@ShabazzTBL]

I was thinking about that too and was very suspicious about the ease in which it was able to turn.

[@Lapantouflemagic0]

yeah, at 8:04 you clearly see how the thing magically deforms to turn because there's no way it could

[@Espen.Johannesen]

Like acordeon busses ? Or a tram/Street train ?

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@Espen.Johannesen neither of those are as wide as an entire multi-lane highway or as long as this thing is projected to be. The closest thing to this would be actual trains, and those aren't known for turning on a dime. Those tight curves you see on subway maps aren't geographically accurate.

[@FinlayDaG33k]

@@Espen.Johannesen Accordeon busses or trams/street trains flex at a given point where two carriages connect... Not have the carriage themselve flex.

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

Suddenly being swallowed by that thing while driving and mind their business must have been truly terrifying.

[@MPostma72]

That is why rearview mirrors exist.

[@NoahGooder]

yep plus it completely blocks visibility of street signs and exits.

[@halcyonacoustic7366]

@@MPostma72 it's already terrifying to drive in a lane between semis on the left and right... this is 10x worse.

[@MPostma72]

@@halcyonacoustic7366 So you have never driven through a tunnel or under an overpass?

[@nologin5375]

It’s also great how disorienting these would be for any drivers, how they completely prevent lane changing between the lanes it drives on, and how almost all traffic would need to be stopped at any traffic light the bus would turn at.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Not to mention that as well as any van any truck, bus, cargo utility or even a normal car with roof racks or a bike on top completely defeat the pupose of it. In my country it is legal for bikes to run up the lane divider too _shudders_ Love to see how insurance would play out when you have this thing casually crushing and sideswiping other road users.

[@blanco7726]

@@tvctaswegia497 trams sideswipe cars as regularly as they break down it’s nothing new nor a big deal

[@tvctaswegia497]

@@blanco7726 Fair enough but at least (I hope) they are not _literally_ running over vehicles like this proposal.

[@blanco7726]

@@tvctaswegia497 any type of crash. It's already happened and will happen again. Nothing you can do about it. Just like at some point a car will crash into a car is inevitable, same for trams on the street or this thing on the street. All in all, idk if this is more crash prone than a convential street tram, but at least this one is more visible and also doesn't stop traffic. Although I would like to see what happens when vans and busses come along🤔

[@Roanmonster]

Also imagine just driving there when suddenly a GIANT BUS drives over your head. It would scare me tbh, not a good thing to aim for when people are driving with their morning alertness

[@Ovalusc1]

I've been a fan of your videos recently, and the sponsorship today struck me as a bit odd. Companies like Masterworks are reminiscent of Crypto companies in the way they try to take advantage of ignorant people with money to throw away on exotic investments. It's difficult to liquidate unless you're willing to take a loss on their secondary market, and the actual returns are relatively low thanks to their high fees and the cut they take of the sold paintings. For Americans, the tax rate for capital gains on paintings is also higher (28%) than that of stocks (20%). This is not even mentioning the sketchiness around the company's practices, like their "minimum investment" which seems to be based on the money the particular person they're selling the service to has available. While no one could reasonably fault content creators for running advertisements, there is a responsibility as a content creator that the things you advertise are reputable and good for the audience. Especially for a channel like this which has a focus on debunking bad or fraudulent ideas, advertising such a dubious investment strategy as if it's an obvious way to make money (even calling it the "forefront of innovation"), brings your credibility into question, regardless of the quality of the actual video.

[@andrewinnj]

Perfect description of the issue. The situation is a dictionary definition example of irony in action.

[@fireskorpion396]

100% agree! He's even had this sponsor before where a lot more people called it out in the comments. Now you have the only comment critisising it which makes it more likely that people will fall for this shady company! :/

[@davidpachecogarcia]

Conflicted.

[@mr.meloetta1939]

I think he's just doing it since he's just gotta get sponsor revenue somehow. I mean stuff like Raycon and Raid: Shadow Legends are probably more hesitant to put their names on somewhat political channels like this.

[@andrew1lee]

I like the turds in a pan analogy. If you're cooking sausages but one is a turd, it doesn't matter how good the rest of the sausages are, nobody will eat them. The advert just seems so out of place.

[@snowdrop9810]

Why go for a bus that goes on top of cars, when you could have used a bus that Goes ALONG cars? aka, why not just use the cheaper option of normal bus. I mean, you could also put some cool decorations or make the bus frame out of gold so it cost the same, with very little difference.

[@ilonachan]

b-b-but won't anyone think of the road resources taken up by BUSES??? 😢

[@nukiradio]

@@ilonachan buses are so oppressive. I'm tired of paying a nickle to get to work! I need a car that costs 3x that.

[@cmb9173]

stop making sense

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

This is almost literally the mindset of “design for manufacturing” that we teach in my industry. Pretty much the first rule that we teach people is to ask the question “did someone already solve the problem that I’m trying to solve?” If the answer is yes then you don’t waste your time trying to design something new and instead just work on implementing the already proven tech in your own situation. Looks like the designers of the straddling bus may have slept through that class…

[@Royallblu]

The Idea was that the "bus" can go over traffic jams during rush hour. So that the "bus" can always be on time. ( - what happens when something like a truck or van is stuck in front of the "bus"??) But the concept being from China maybe trucks or vans or anything to tall to drive under the bus would be banned on the road where the bus is driving on.

[@arjen1315]

Great video, as always. I must say that I'm not too happy about that sponsorship, though... Always get the feeling that these types of companies prey on the desperate and ignorant

[@mrg0th1er83]

We all skip these parts anyway

[@gladitsnotme]

Every company preys on the desperate wtf

[@arjen1315]

@@gladitsnotme lol no

[@Lucas61616]

@@gladitsnotme this isnt a counter arguement though, its not just "they prey on the desperate" vs "they don't" there's different scales of it. Shit like masterworks is on the extra exploitative end of the scale. Also, there absolutely *are* companies that explicitly don't prey on the desperate. Pretty much any place that needs a majority in skilled workers for example literally can't afford to cheap out (unless circumstances convince them to break the law/disregard safety, a huge no no depending on what kind of skilled work it is they're cheaping out on.)

[@clray123]

Then maybe you should not be happy about your commie idol taking money from the evil Google either? Hosting his red-green crap on an evil-capitalist-built service?

[@ExternalDialogue]

I love how the entire straddling bus bends whenever it goes around a bend because the animators just parented the model to a curve.

[@DanielFranklinLinuxGuru]

No no, its made of graphene! And blockchain!

[@AaronChristopher869]

@@DanielFranklinLinuxGuru lmao

[@JM.....]

Yeah that was amazing

[@methanesulfonic]

@@DanielFranklinLinuxGuru I bet those boomer investors would fall for anything that has ""blockchain"" on it's name lol

[@demontferrat]

That is exactly what was bothering me. At first I had to rewind to see if I were deceived, but no, the giant metal box was bending.

[@SnakPak]

I'm just gonna say it. As a long time fan of the channel, this is important to me. This sponsor sucks. Rich people abuse sitting on art to stay rich. Tech bros offering me the scraps of this broken system? Not for me. Art should be art, not an investment vehicle. Love the videos. Glad you're getting sponsors. Just wish it was something else :/

[@jeffparker1617]

What if we keep it in a free port so no one ever pays the capital gains taxes on buying a piece of art. So not only is it a broken system, but literally no one will ever see the art again.

[@call_me_mado5987]

Sadly my dude it's just part of his job, youtubers don't like advertising but they have to do it especially if they do it full time, if i was the youtube i also wouldn't like sponsors in videos, i bet youtubers also get anooyed by sponsors in other youtubers videos that they watch, kind of ironic isn't it? Well nothing that can be done about it really, i like to just skip that section or have a sip of my cup of tea in the meantime until the sponsor ends ☕

[@history8192]

I thought they use it for money laundering? I suppose it could be both.

[@SnakPak]

@@history8192 it's a way to dodge taxes. I don't know exactly how it works, but something like this: Paintings etc. sit in a warehouse , being "bought and sold" by other wealthy people, jacking up their value. Then once it's worth WAY more money then they got it for, they "donate" the painting and get a multi-million dollar tax break for being so "generous". Also the whole time it's being "traded" it's actually just sitting in a warehouse.

[@kubratdanailov9406]

Not only that, but you are looking at 100+ seconds of ads on a 600 second video. Like, I am watching this with an adblocker, but with a pre-roll and a post-roll ad on a mobile device, you are looking at 3 minutes of ads for 6-7 minutes of content. This is on par with shitty cable TV. Please don't do a) dodgy sponsors but also b) 2 minutes of uninterrupted ad time in the start of the video. And please don't take shitty sponsors that turn you into a mouthpiece for stuff that you profoundly don't believe in. And if you HAVE invested with this sponsor, show us the bill, so that we know to trust you on this :)

[@MS-hx3ct]

You gotta love how the rigid parts of the cgi bus are shifting & bending in the curves.

[@KertaDrake]

I could see people swerving on reflex when these things go overhead. Having one of these go overhead would be incredibly distracting! Also, just build an elevated rail if you really want this! Still terrible, but less likely to cause traffic clusterfucks when someone hits one of the legs!

[@daffodil2067]

There is a type of farm tractor that is approximately 1.5 lanes wide and is tall enough to drive under. I've encountered them on gravel roads a couple times. When I'm behind them I just follow, but when they are coming at me I prefer to pull into a driveway and let them pass but if I can't I've driven under them after a brief non verbal negotiation. It was definitely weird the first time.

[@Handl3sAreStupid]

@@daffodil2067 What kind of tractor is this? I would love to look up a picture.

[@daffodil2067]

@@Handl3sAreStupid besides what it looks like, I have no idea it's name or function. I'm only assuming it's farm tractor because the person driving it looked like a farmer and it was painted John Deere green.... Maybe check out a John Deere product catalog?

[@ItsAsparageese]

@@daffodil2067 I'm not literate in farm-y stuff, and I only cursorily googled, but I'm cautiously optimistic that what you describe is something called a crop sprayer 😝 At least, those image results seem to fit! I suppose it makes sense that they would have crazy clearance if they're meant to drive over things that are already growing.

[@daffodil2067]

@@ItsAsparageese Would make sense, don't think I've ever seen a crop duster around here

[@vinny9500]

What I really love is how the chasis of the bus is made of rubber. Look at it bend and flex as it took that right-hand turn (which also cut off the right turn lane).

[@TheBlacktom]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_bus

[@I.____.....__...__]

It's not rubber, it's "future materials". It's rigid and stronger than steel but more flexible than rubber and seems like magic to us because it's "sufficiently advanced".

[@ZeLunatic]

@@I.____.....__...__ Ah yes of course, the fabled plasteel. Or plastitanium. ...Or is it rubbanium?

[@jessedickersin6253]

I can imagine driving under this thing, and then having to break quickly when it makes a turn. Genius.

[@ouwebrood497]

From a driver point of view this can only be a nightmare. Changing lanes, suddenly it's getting dark because a bus comes over you, you can't see road signs, and so on. I bet might this idea ever come to live drivers will avoid this thing by all means.

[@Skylancer727]

Yeah just think of how the hell this thing will handle turns at intersections. Will it get a special light to go before the rest of traffic? If not the cars underneath may start at the same time and slam into the side. It can also start a turn while cars are passing under it causing the same thing so it would need some way to prevent people driving under prior to a turn and make sure no one is currently under it. That just makes it impossible as these things are unavoidable. It's sort of like how the paternoster is a far better elevator for total throughput but far less safe.

[@natchu96]

At that point you might as well just build a bridge over the traffic to run a train on...I mean this thing is on rails, it's literally just a stumpy train that also acts as obstructive walls for car traffic.

[@LittlePixelTM]

I love how in the renders the buses actually bend like they're made of rubber rather than articulate in chunks at the junctions between carriages.

[@protorhinocerator142]

But then you wouldn't be able to lounge around from car to car. I also love how there are like 4 people on board these things, sashaying around in pure luxury holding martinis, when the whole point is to cram as many people on board as you can fit.

[@LittlePixelTM]

@@protorhinocerator142 I meant really that renders don't treat the cars like chunks of metal and the whole car bends on the track at corners. I have no problem with wide concertina carriage connections :)

[@protorhinocerator142]

@@LittlePixelTM Agreed.

[@Quesbe]

This is a genuinely very nice video, however I really don't trust masterworks honestly... It looks like yet another scam you would have hated if they didn't offer you lots of money to make people believe this nonsense. Also another point against that kind of bus: they would not me able to flex around corners like they are shown in the ads.

[@Cobalt985]

@@fatherfountain1906 adam should take this video down and reupload without the sponsor then. also obligatory _Use Sponsorblock_

[@kalinmir]

I consider anything promoted by youtubers at least as half a scam...no other people are as desperate for sponsors

[@tobiasfecker8373]

@@fatherfountain1906 really? Can't find anything about this, can you give some more context?

[@notapplicable6985]

@@tobiasfecker8373 It's in the vid, the creators of the straddling bus did some embezzlement

[@tobiasfecker8373]

@@notapplicable6985 Ok your comment made it seem that you're referring to Masterworks. Thanks for clearing up

[@DerEiserneBuerger]

And now imagine your car is under the bus at a junction, and the bus turns right, while you actually wanted to drive straight. You have to stop and cause a traffic jam, or you have to follow the bus a take an other way to your destination.

[@davidanderson5310]

I can't take your opposition to a scam like a straddling bus seriously, when you're doing an ad for another scam, MasterWorks.

[@priceprice_baby]

Came here to comment about exactly this. That ad is out of character for you Adam

[@Winnetou17]

Yes, thank you, I was searching for comments like this! I'm amazed that Adam chose to go with that. "The art market is bulletproof" Jeez-Louise, the amount of bullshit in that single sentence...

[@nikolaresanovic8335]

Nice to see someone spotted a glaring flaw in this video. Art, in this case paintings, is used to wash away so much money it's actually crazy.

[@SnakPak]

Bump

[@DavidWest2]

Had the same thought. I actually watched the whole ad instead of skipping because I couldn't believe our friendly scam mocker was hawking an obvious scam. And honestly, those videos at the end with the super futuristic ufo on a beach looked kinda neat, like a disneyland ride. Not everything in life has to be 100% practical.

[@hamham_6411]

As someone in Hungary, who spends about 20 mins/day at a single intersection on a bus, in a dedicated bus lane... It's more complicated than "just paint a bus lane". Implementation is key.

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

Absolutely, there’s definitely good and bad examples of bus lanes. The issue in America though is that bad politicians and lobbyists tend to tank projects and turn them into “bad” bus lanes which makes citizens think that we need junk like this straddling bus.

[@pancholopez8829]

@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet I agree. And that is someone from the US that confirms it.

[@Bamm1894]

Yeah it didnt work here in Gothenburg, Sweden either

[@zZ38PYB50guA9PUuDhAI]

I live in South Korea and bus lanes and BRT systems in Seoul work well but Busan and Sejong bus lanes and BRTs have some issues

[@kuro9410_ilust]

Still better than NOTHING at all

[@kullre_gun]

My favorite part about the CGI bus is that it has the same problem as the polar express, it just. B E N D S. This shit ain't rubber

[@henryginn7490]

I'm getting pretty sick of "innovation" where they reinvent something to solve a non existent problem, but worse than the original solution in every way.

[@idontexist1681]

It's almost as if most "innovation" projects are trying to scam investors...

[@abbanf]

The problem isn't non existent tho. Car traffic is a real problem, especially in the overpopulated hell of Eastern China. But as Adam said, why not just have dedicated bus lines. For conventional buses, you don't need multiple billions of dollars in R&D for some bullshit project for which the end is impractical. We don't need fucking UFO-buses zooming around being buses but worse. That just ain't bussin.

[@AhimtarHoN]

I'm on the other hand looking forward to every single one since it means a new Adam video

[@schnizzyfizz7832]

It's a wheel, only we made it square! introducing, The Squeel! Like regular wheel, just worse.

[@andrewinnj]

Wow Masterworks seems like just as big a scam as this straddling bus. Thanks for the unsolicited investing advice! 🙃

[@ik2254]

Imagine actually using stuff, promoted by youtubers, lol. ESPECIALLY finance and investment stuff. Merch is 99.9% crap Products - just regular ones from China with a 300% markup. I never seen anything not a scam / worthwhile from these ads. So just skip it, like i do. And think of them as another chore youtuber does to make money. Like "like and subscribe" or "99.9% of my viewers aren't subbed". Just whoosh - straight through the mind. Gone

[@dsterbdspyder6067]

Modern Art is a money laundering operation.

[@andrewinnj]

@@ik2254 normally I would. It's a bit tougher to do with a creator who almost exclusively releases videos that expose scams. Besides: creators gonna create, commentators gonna commentate.

[@frankkobold]

@@ik2254 the thing is: good content creators are picky about their sponsors. Bc it also tells something about their brand/trustworthiness. Actual disappointed in this channel for going with it.

[@cy-one]

@@ik2254 I've been using HelloFresh for somewhere between quarter to half of a year now. Totally happy with it and would recommend it to anyone that would benefit from it. (not everyone does, of course!) Got promoted to me by YT/Practical Engineering.

[@CaptainDramagerate]

I like how in the animations, the body of the vehicle bends like rubber as it goes around corners.

[@Are8Lian]

Did you also notice how the 3D-render of the rigid structure acted like it was made of jelly when it made a turn? The whole 3D-model was distorted with the turn. That's not how metal works. Is this thing supposed to be like an articulated bus as well, only that the whole car is made out of the flexible material? This thing, being as wide as it is wouldn't even have a chance to be above anything else than a straight road. Maybe they planned to sell it to Dubai? Great points as always, btw!

[@steemlenn8797]

Dubai would indeed be the right place, in this something line city. But wouldn't you only be able to have one bus going the 100 miles long distance? Not the best timetable if you ask me.

[@evil001987]

At best this could work up and down one straight road. Which, could actually be viable in a couple of cities around the world which have very large central avenues. Although it would be an overly expensive and sensitive equipment with little real benefit for the overall traffic in the city. So in reality it's still a big no.

[@janeriklofflat8039]

​@@steemlenn8797 they just need to straddle the straddling buses with other straddling buses problem solved!

[@patchso]

@Ar Lian: Yeah, my first thought was ‘corners?’ rapidly followed by ‘lorries?’

[@GhengisJohn]

I saw the car grocery store at the end. I paused, noting different machines seemed to have different items and then realizing it was a grocery store that you drive around before proceeding to the man buying... so much meat, I said "This is a vision of hell." before Adam said the same thing. I feel, looking at these structures this animation must be part of the prequel to Cars, where the cars invaded every aspect of our lives before they ultimately took over.

[@shatterquartz]

Who doesn't like meat that's been sitting in the sun all day?

[@rafaelsueyro7825]

@@shatterquartz also... who the fuck restocks these "foodpods". Let me guess, via underground railing system...

[@blakksheep736]

@@rafaelsueyro7825 or automatous drones.

[@ebnertra0004]

I'm amazed that I haven't seen this yet. A drive-thru grocery store seems like the second most American thing I can imagine, with the first being a drive-thru gun store

[@blakksheep736]

@@ebnertra0004 what about a drive through gun store with a Starbucks?

[@computer_toucher]

Hahaha @3:52 the entire bus bends in the turn like it was made of rubber. I bet even the animator went “how tf this gonna work irl? Oh well, cha bu duo”

[@zerses]

I’ve been a fan of your content for a good while now, and it’s honestly a little bit shocking that you decide to go with sponsors like this. In your videos, you always use critical thinking very effectively to support your arguments, which is why it’s so odd that you’re being sponsored by Masterworks. Companies that treat art as some sort of investment game are already a pretty big red flag, but this one also seems to share many similarities with things like NFTs, which are known to be shady and scammy.

[@Winnetou17]

Yes, thank you! I'm amazed that Adam chose to go with that. "The art market is bulletproof" Jeez-Louise, the amount of bullshit in that single sentence...

[@jackb3822]

Hope he sees this

[@SnakPak]

Bump. I actually came back to this video after watching it yesterday and not commenting. I'm back for this exact comment. Thank you.

[@Chomp-Rock]

Maybe it's an ironic joke. Or Adam knows his viewers wouldn't be dumb enough to invest in it so he's just cashing in.

[@Fnidner]

Was looking for this comment!

[@DieNibelungenliad]

Dont you just love it when you're chilling on a beautiful mediterranean coast and then a whole UFO rolls above you every few minutes, blowing away your blanket, hindering the sun, and replacing the sound of relaxing waves with the blaring noise of multiple engines!

[@zebraloverbridget]

Of all the bad ideas at the end I actually kind of liked that one tbh. Assuming it is electric since why use engines when you are already on a track that can provide power. The way it was attached to the track did seem kind of sketchy though

[@unconventionalideas5683]

It was supposed to be electric. This is an example of why Communist Countries (in this case, China) and innovation seldom (not never, but seldom) go together very well.

[@DieNibelungenliad]

@@unconventionalideas5683 That's funny, considering communist China has more electric trains than it has ever had before

[@sneaky_krait7271]

Will likely produce no engine noise, however wind noise will be there

[@bobdolesrevenge]

@@sneaky_krait7271 Wind noise and the noise of the entire weight of the giant space donut grinding against the rail on two tiny wheels.

[@robertomurteira5913]

I love your videos, but this sponsorship disgusts me.

[@Cancun771]

11foot4 is all I'm saying. They also call it the *"can opener bridge".* Look it up. This straddling bus thing has only _half_ the clearance. Its nickname would be *"The Van Guillotine"* Upside: A brand new super entertaining youtube channel. They would need to install a couple rearward web cams at the factory and then they could use the proceeds to cover the repair costs caused by the constant van beheadings.

[@steemlenn8797]

You know, suddenly I am all for this project!

[@DMA3918]

Ah the good ol' 11foot4. OzzyMan did a great video on this one. Penske trucks anyone?

[@dannypipewrench533]

I would watch that religiously.

[@contrapasta2454]

The can opener in in my town. They recently jacked it up a few inches. The whole idea of a moving can opener is utterly insane.

[@Cancun771]

@@steemlenn8797 Just imagine if they did it in _several_ cities! In different autocracies all over the world!

[@TryboBike]

I love how the "straddling bus" bends itsself when turning.

[@paul6925]

I’m embarrassed to admit I thought this was amazing when it was proposed. In my defence my city was busy REMOVING bike lanes and I really needed to believe in something 😂

[@istvanhegedus477]

So I guess we shouldn't expect an "art market is a scam" video from Adam XD

[@MrYefh]

Talking about bullshit...

[@brunhildevalkyrie]

yeah

[@GigasGMX]

Money laundering and scams are TECHNICALLY different thing…

[@aslandus]

The ultimate flex (and probably a great way to get sued) would be to get Masterworks to fund a video on how they're actually a scam to help billionaires cash out their paintings before new regulations make the art bubble pop and they're forced to sell them at a loss.

[@istvanhegedus477]

@@GigasGMX but in this case who ever buys the overvalued shit will loose money

[@unniFI]

LMFAO @ the sponsor. can't even think of how much they must've paid you to shill for their bullshit

[@Reac2]

The original NFTs

[@salemas5]

dude, be glad its not raid shadow legend, ridge wallet or other crap..

[@jacobbronsky464]

Right ? It's a bit much.

[@Bigminechannel]

@@salemas5 actually, I would prefer ridge wallet. Maybe it's a useless product (don't know, I'm not gonna buy it), but at least it is not a dubious investment thing.

[@Core-vu6mc]

Can you imagine how freaked out people would get when that giant monstrosity overtakes you on the road! You put that in any major city and they would shut it down in a month due to accidents.

[@themechanist7875]

I can not for the life of me get over the fact that in the CG videos they made the damn individual carriages BEND LIKE PLAYDOH when it takes a turn.

[@AldiePezeh]

haha, i thought i imagined that. you are right.

[@TheBlacktom]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_bus

[@I.____.....__...__]

People keep saying that, but it's just because those "future materials" are "sufficiently advanced" that they seem like magic to us with their flexibility and strength.

[@InfernosReaper]

considering, that's literally the *only* way this stupid idea could possibly be able to turn...

[@herrerasauro7429]

DON'T BADMOUTH OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR DAHIIR INSAAT YOU MISSED HIS QUADCOPTERS GUN SYSTEMS Also, I remember seeing this shit as 16 years old in a "Popular Science" equivalent and thinking "that's absolutely dumb, one driver being an idiot and the whole system crashes down and drivers are idiots a LOT of the time", yet techbros fell for it enough to lose money on such harebrained scheme.

[@herrerasauro7429]

Back then I remember thinking "an inverted monorail is absurdly more practical" and I stand by that notion even if in the last 15 years I discovered that inverted monorails are in no way practical.

[@justanotherface1664]

Watching Tietuesday and Slowbeef roast the shit out of their videos remains a personal favourite. Their bizarre world logic is almost beautiful to watch.

[@megalocoman]

I heard that this guy make those dumb renders to patent a vague idea, so he can sue whoever make something slightly similar.

[@AntneeUK]

I love that the entire bus literally bends around corners in the animations 😂 Something that wide going around a corner would require some immense hinge joints!

[@EvilGav]

My favourite part of the straddling bus is that in the promo videos for it, when it goes round a corner, the bus itself changes shape to fit the turn. There's no bellows type linkage that allows for movement, oh no, we have deformable metal walls!!

[@wormcatman8652]

An interesting idea for a Harry Potter story would be if after the war the victorios side immediately fractures between those who want status quo and those who want actual change for the better.

[@DieNibelungenliad]

We all know which side JK will be on

[@PocketBeemRocket]

We wouldn’t get that until she’s in the grave and one of her kids decides “yeah, mom was a narc”.

[@blakksheep736]

Who will be on what side?

[@blakksheep736]

@@kidkangaroo5213 shouldn't Hermione of all people be against the quo that lessens mages born of muggles?

[@themambawarrior2290]

@@kidkangaroo5213 Hermione actively tried to free the slaves, despite JK writing them as "not wanting to be free" or some shit like that

[@kai_plays_khomus]

There's a reason for busses and trams being in use for 150 years: They work. Soon somebody will reinvent the wheel, but based on an octagon to pass it off as an innovation.

[@michaelmills8205]

I just love how the animations have a fairly standard mixed road use, with cars, vans and transport trucks, but all expect the cars disappear when the straddling bus appears. The moment I saw that the thing needs rails, the question of "why not just build a train instead" popped into my head. For these thing you will need to build a bunch of new specialized infrastructure that won't be compatible with anything else anyways, so why not go with a proven solution that is highly efficient? Oh, wait, that technology actually exist so you can't embezzle a bunch of money out of the R&D department and not actually deliver anything. I call that the "EM Vapourware" approach.

[@Rampart.X]

"Artist's renditions" conveniently omit the embarrassing details like graffiti, homeless people, accidents, antisocial behaviour, gross inefficiencies, delapidation...

[@Real_MisterSir]

Yup. And if you wanted to raise it above traffic, just build a monorail or elevated light rail. Like. The solutions already exist and are 10x more efficient and easy to implement and cheaper and proven reliable. This thing doesn't reinvent the wheel. It squares off the wheel and then tries to spin fast enough that people don't notice it's actually a square and not a circle.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Or just build a trolley system like San Francisco has. 1 million times lower level of complexity.

[@Rampart.X]

@@protorhinocerator142 trolley systems can be very good if implemented properly

[@protorhinocerator142]

@@Rampart.X Yeah, I mean it's a simple concept. Not a lot to go wrong. We had them 100 years ago. They don't need CGI to make them operate.

[@ralseedeltaroon9311]

After watching this channel for a couple days, I am convinced that building trains will solve world-hunger.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

If rail transport allows for more efficient and quick transportation of food, perhaps it can contribute to that in a non-hyperbolic sense.

[@ralseedeltaroon9311]

@@DiamondKingStudios r/technicallythetruth

[@protorhinocerator142]

You can also find Bigfoot using these.

[@keithlarsen7557]

By lowering the price of agricultural diesel by reducing transportation demand.

[@ishathakor]

not directly but it's one the things we'll need if we want to live in a sustainable and equitable world, so i guess it's a part of the solution.

[@sharkeyes333]

Gotta admit...I zoned out for like 10 seconds and he was talking about Harry Potter and I was going like "wtf did I change the video?"

[@purple3657]

I couldn't imagine being under one of these straddling busses in a car. What if the bus makes a turn where you don't want to? Either be fast enough with stopping and halt the entire lane or just drive into the bus... how tf would that work out

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

And can you imagine cruising along while slightly spaced out and then suddenly having the world go dark while a bus lumbers over you? I feel like that would be terrifying the first couple times it happened to me!

[@shishoka]

If it does that you're screwed. In order to avoid this problem with sem-trailers they have markings where people have to stop before making a turn (that no one pays attention to) and signs saying "you can't turn here." If it turns where you don't want you change your mind and turn or you get into a crash as it drives over you.

[@0000-r2b]

I get Adam has to make money somehow, but I do find it more than a little ironic that he's, delightfully as always, bashing some new transit boondoggle while reading copy from a service that is a financial boondoggle. All investment has inherent risk. There is no such thing as guaranteed profit. Masterworks charges very high fees and has low-liquidity, so be aware that your investment value can fluctuate below its initial capital and be drawn down by fees.

[@tresnonugroho6397]

IIRC, he once took a sponsor from one of the most scammy mobile games that is Raid: Shadow Legend.

[@MrRedstoner]

@@tresnonugroho6397 I think that one's a meme by this point, so it wouldn't be taken seriously anyway.

[@sickoslater]

I just wish there was a better way for creators to make money without having to rely on monetization from KZbin which at this point is just a fucking nightmare, or have to take sponsorships from scummy sponsors.

[@szasdragon]

He knows we know, becouse we know and we are his viewers, so it's easy money.

[@M3G4FR34K]

@@sickoslater you mean like joining his Patreon?

[@BHFilms222]

I need a series where Adam reviews crappy CGI videos of "solutions" to our problems. Cause that channel at the end was a gold mine.

[@gabrielmontenegro9476]

"What are you buying honey?" "FLESH!" That and the next sequence made me laugh out loud for a good while. Thank you Adam!

[@letsnotmakethispersonal6021]

Him: looks at her "don't think I have the guts to buy 1 more do you? Bam! That just happened" Her: "I'm so fucking wet, take me now on this conveyer that I still can't figure out where it's taking all our damn food because our car is right behind you"

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

me: having a good feeling that this video is going to be quite skeptical and well researched. "Let me introduce today's sponsor, Masterworks" me: oh

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

The video is very good, but I think it’s a shame he accepted a sponsorship from such a bad company (which I really doubt Adam actually supports). Unfortunately, KZbin ad revenue earns you very little these days, and he needs to pay the bills somehow. Most people understand that you shouldn’t trust sponsorships, luckily.

[@Shadowdncer]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel and when all else fails, there's still RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!!!!!1! (I guess it's nice that some companies aren't pretending some moral high ground but will pay for ad time on whatever? Like companies happily profiting from child labour but complaining when there's half a dildo popping up on a single frame of a video.)

[@eyjay1508]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel You can apply this logic to every single scammer he rails against. "They just need to pay the bills guys, that makes it ok for them to be promoting grifts and scams."

[@StephenBlane]

I remember the Straddling Bus! I thought it was interesting but never thought much else from it. I'm surprised they even made it to prototype. I love Dahir Insaat videos! I strongly urge people watch through them, they are gold. My favourite is the deployable, solar-powered, camouflaged, anti-tank platforms that get dropped into fields to stop hordes of enemy tanks by firing shells without any kind of barrel with perfect accuracy. It's called "Изделие №1".

[@BlunderMunchkin]

As ridiculous as that video was, it's not quite as ridiculous as you think. China has a type of rocket that looks like a shell and is fired without a barrel. EDIT: I think the designation for it is "type 63 107mm rocket shell." It's usually fired from a launcher, but was designed from the outset to be able to be fired by itself if necessary. Second edit: Search for "Chinese Artillery: Creative Ways to Fire Ammunition" on youtube to see a video of it in action.

[@teslashark]

@@BlunderMunchkin The Type 63 is inaccurate without a barrel, it's designed to be used like this in a pinch but ideally you have a full nebelwerfer on hand

[@Revenent530]

I'm so happy to mentioned Dahir Insaat, the kings of solving one problem while unsolving fifty more. I recommend Retsupurae's videos on them, especially the drive-in supermarket and the artery bore

[@jemert96]

The drive-in grocery store is like some GM executive's fever dream

[@vvcq]

Those are surely great engineering ideas, but me personally, I just love the earthquake auto-coffin and the mega war crime quad-copter.

[@Geospasmic]

I immediately thought of Dahir Insaat as soon as I saw the design. Bloated and unfeasible, just to enable other awful stuff.

[@alveolate]

i was like, why can't this dude just make graphics for the next simcity or cities skyline?

[@EmeraldLavigne]

Hell yeah, I miss RP so much!

[@stevesabba2379]

The Straddling bus is the first "Straddle-type bus". Its very Strand like in that sense.

[@Newciouss]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYHKi56XiNebbZI

[@nukiradio]

"Zorp is the world's largest zorporation"

[@anubislockward3750]

a man of culture, I see

[@glswain]

That’s why the number 1 best invention of 2010 was SUPAH MARIO BROS 2!!!

[@engineergaming5989]

Much like morbius

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I didn't even think about bus lanes as an alternative to it until you brought it up because the idea of cities not already having bus lanes is one of those things I actively have to think about.

[@justaname999]

It is odd when a channel that you respect does sponsorships like the one today.

[@_yuri]

elon pays him money he will unironically praise elon that is the power of money.

[@jmurray1110]

More accurately the power of not starving to death

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

It is but I can forgive it, he needs to pay the bills and luckily most people know to ignore sponsorships.

[@goldbullet50]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel Well, getting a job is always a possibility.

[@Cordman1221]

Get Bread, or Get Dead. Capitalism my guy

[@spenarkley]

Currently on vacation in Berlin and I'm very impressed by all the way you can travel around. I'm not living in a large city so regional trains and buses once an hour is what i am familiar with.

[@DonnieX6]

Welcome to Berlin then and enjoy your stay! Greetings from the Kreuzberg district 😉

[@atherisGAY]

Many cities in Germany seem to have amazing options of public transportation: busses, subways and trains. But as soon as you leave the city you are kind of on your own hahaha the place I went for a while had 3 busses over the day and THAT WAS IT.

[@xXKyledkXx]

Regional buses? Hour schedules? If only! I'd love that option even ....

[@Der_Giga]

My absolute favorite in Berlin are the electric ferries. But I only rode one once, because they are a bit outside. If you have the chance to use them when going to a lake, do it. ;) They are even solar powered.

[@imawesomepersonDERP]

Hey I'm actually currently vacationing in Berlin too! I hope we have a fun time 😊

[@denimvelvet4670]

Personally I've just wondered how many car wrecks that would cause. City streets are already terrifying to navigate. Especially if you're not a person who is in the city often. Just imagine trying to deal with people in cars when all of a sudden that thing swoops over head.

[@Madman1234855]

Dahir Insaat appears to be a company that does nothing but produce animated concepts for overcomplicated machinery, their weapons designs are especially egregious, actually engaging in warcrimes in their own videos. My personal guess is they're some kind of money laundering scheme, as they don't have any actual customers.

[@dunamoose3446]

Or just a shitposter lmao

[@LevitatingCups]

Did you not see the amount of meat you can get while meeting chicks, that alone must be worth it.

[@namef]

Their definately shady af, like, they claim to have top-teir scientists working for them yet somehow dont have enough money to hire a compatent cgi artist

[@Madman1234855]

@@namef I wouldn't be surprised if it's just one guy, who occasionally hires a voice actor to read off a machine translated script over his animations.

[@yestermonth]

I don't even see them as a company, just a channel to relax to and watch strange stuff.

[@The5lacker]

I love all the renders having it wiggle and warp around corners all the time, it's really inspiring to see the innovation of materials sciences to allow metal and plastic to clip into themselves, let alone what's happening to the passengers inside.

[@protorhinocerator142]

It uses future Flex Armstrong technology from the year 2000. Cutting edge stuff. Nanotech, graphene, and magic lasers make it all work.

[@AcidiFy574]

Tis the power of flex tape

[@rainmanslim4611]

Here's an idea... build trams. Melbourne has a ton of trams and you can get anywhere with one in the CBD, it's because of trams that the Bourke St mall is near fully walkable. Honestly, every time I go to Melbourne I don't drive. Take a train to the city, get around the city with trams and the metro. It's so easy.

[@slateslavens]

And I love how the body of the bus _actually changes shape_ when it goes around corners as opposed to showing that the segments follow each other just like any other train. It's an attempt to hide the fact that cornering clearance is an issue with the design, as there would be a section of each 'car' at the front and rear that would stay centered over the tracks, and therefore the road. The rest of the 'car' would overlap to the inside of the corner. The amount of overlap would depend on the length of the cars, but it has the potential to pose the exact same risk as driving along side a large truck/lorry in a curve.

[@swaggerdagger8976]

They’ll sooner make long-ass water slides for getting around before they make trains 🤦‍♂️

[@Newciouss]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYHKi56XiNebbZI

[@namef]

ok but imagine sliding your way down to the grocery store on a fkn duck-floaty come to think of it, thats unironically a better idea than this elevated bus bullsht

[@colormedubious4747]

In this summer heat, that sounds like a great idea!

[@notrod5341]

Imagine having one of these going over you when you're not expecting it, the amount of people who would panic break/swerve especially in the first few months (maybe even years) of implementation.

[@AliothAncalagon]

Ironically the straddling Bus reminded me of a railway track laying machine xD Those usually also have a transport unit that drives on the outer rim of the laying machine under it to transport stuff back and forth.

[@teslashark]

I've been to the site where they tested the functioning prototype straddling bus. It's very clear that it only runs on rails and the locomotive part seems to be taken from an arch crane that serviced the depo housing it.

[@TraustiGeir]

Any delivery driver (operating a van or truck) with even a modicum of experience looked at this concept and thought: "Do we even exist to these people?"

[@petersmythe6462]

I have a brilliant idea. Make it way longer and put a two lane road on top of the straddling bus and sideramps to allow cars to climb up onto it and descend down off of it. That way, instead of merely not interfering with car traffic, it actively increases road capacity. And... now that we have a two lane road atop our straddling bus, we can allow straddling buses to climb on top of it, to straddle the straddling bus and eventually climb over it (obviously taking their own two lane road with them).

[@Real_MisterSir]

this is definitely challenging the status quo XD

[@protorhinocerator142]

As plausible as anything else in the video.

[@federicomarintuc]

9:20 to be fair, that's the normal ammount of meat an Argentinean would buy for a week (also Uruguayans and probably South Brazilians)

[@aguinaildolima524]

Entendi a piada dos sul brasileiros kkk

[@beeble2003]

3:48 Yet another problem with the concept: road lanes are typically wider around corners, but the straddling bus would prevent that.

[@gezurarbeit3097]

It is a great concept and I really like how the solid parts of the bus bend like a snake at 3:49

[@AlwaysANemesis]

I'm convinced that, even if there were a more efficient means of mass transport and traffic reform that existed, that these so-called 'innovators' would be too allergic to the idea of building off of concepts that are proven to work, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel by throwing the wheel away and making another wheel that's shaped like a square.

[@samcan9997]

sorry lad but people already did that twice with square wheels

[@UriGerhard]

I vaguely remember that square wheels can work if your road is shaped like a sine wave. Problem is you can't steer at all

[@ruslbicycle6006]

It's design by computer animation with people who have fancy degrees and not the slightest idea of the real world. Often it looks like a student project just trying out the software but sadly it often is more qualified people than that. I see it all the time with bicycle "inventions" meme's of a bike with wheels with no hub or just generally very stupid designs that somehow look good in a certain animation style and people think this has something to do with actual material world deisgn

[@lzh4950]

We could have more double-decker trams/buses in areas with enough height clearance, & to speed up boarding/alighting, double-decker tram/bus stops too (with platform screen doors on the upper floor for safety)

[@samcan9997]

@@lzh4950 yes but why would we your now talking about having to double up on DMUs or trailers which is a waste of time due to the factor of mass production reducing cost plus much more stations are capable of recieving much longer trains than they commonly use which would have minimal additional impact

[@_Pikalika_]

God damn Dahir is living his absolute best keto life out here

[@odw32]

We have this straddling bus concept in Amsterdam. It's called an above-ground metro line. It straddles above the city traffic on light rail tracks. It's not perfect (raised/pillared tracks are expensive to build, and there's the occasional outages), but it's pretty nice. Trams with right-of-way and prioritized traffic lights are also quite neat for medium cities, especially with good connectivity to multiple regional bus lines and railway stations.

[@spacepirate9573]

Isnt you country in chaos rn?

[@odw32]

@@spacepirate9573 Isn't the whole world in chaos? It's true, after Corona we're now in an energy crisis, there's inflation, we just had an abnormal heatwave, there's farmer protests, immigrant housing problems, Schiphol airport is falling apart, etc -But all those issues together aren't more chaotic or more impactful than the issues of any other country in 2022. I'd argue that comparatively, things are not too bad for The Netherlands right now.

[@Jorora_Dev]

@@odw32 I don't know what that guy is talking about. The Netherlands looks like a paradise to me compared to my American and Californian perspective. Our housing prices are criminal, our forests are on fire, our people living in filth and alone in the streets, people in fancy cars just ignore everything around them and blame it on poor people and then complain how there aren't any people to serve their coffee when they force those people out of their cities and our schools are completely backwards in every sense of the word. Then we have a bunch of liberal politicians and people that don't actually care about fixing these issues. They don't want public housing, healthcare or any actual solutions aside from half solutions that make the conservatives in this country *seem* right simply because we'd rather pander to money than the wellfare of our people and our lands.

[@odw32]

@@Jorora_Dev But then to a Sri Lankan, California would look like a paradise, and to a Ukrainian, Sri Lanka might not look so bad. It's good to criticize your government and strive for positive change -but also important to count your blessings.

[@Jorora_Dev]

@@odw32 of course There’s a lot of good things here but people also like to just underplay our problems just because China or India has it worse. We shouldn’t be comparing ourselves to a worse place but to a better place. Ask eachother “how can we make it better here?”

[@Reac2]

The presumption of busses "taking away road resources"... You mean spots for like 3 cars? While carrying 10 times the people who would fit in those cars?

[@joshpiotrowski3487]

I love how you say "liberal scared of change" that's conservatives in my country. It's the conservatives that want to stay in the past, resist change and want to keep the public transit away

[@IsaacKuo]

The straddling bus is a BRILLIANT idea with only one conceivable flaw - going over the cars instead of under them. You just take two normal buses, glue them together side by side to make them wide for no reason, and add ramps to the front and back for the cars to drive over. Now let me buy Twitter or not!

[@timseguine2]

You can call it the saddling bus. Because... cars ride on it... like on a saddle...

[@tnsquidd]

What I've learned from this channel is most modern traffic problems can just be solved with trains

[@schwarzwolfram7925]

"Shouldn't we put the track on stilts instead of the moving several-ton vehicle?" "Nah, that would make _too_ much sense!"

[@Balsiefen]

3:45 I like the way the metal sides of the bus are able to flex, shrink and expand as it goes around tight corners. Really great engineering that.

[@lipsach]

I was thinking how the f*** this bus makes a turn, I got my solution right there.

[@snowdrop9810]

How would that thing ever even turn? So damn WIDE , like would it even be able to turn a corner that doesnt have a radius of 100m+? Ot ofcourse it had extremely long connecting things, which you couldnt walk on.

[@BlastedRodent]

Simple solution: In the animation, it is clearly made of rubber.

[@TubususCZ]

I mean you can see clearly in the animations that it's bending. Probably made of rubber or something, I dunno. Just don't think too hard about it I guess.

[@Real_MisterSir]

This thing doesn't reinvent the wheel. It squares off the wheel and then tries to spin fast enough that people don't notice it's actually a square and not a circle.

[@livelongandtroll9108]

09:08 Truth be told, as someone who loves that old sci-fi "futuristic" drawings from the '50s and '60s, they nail that aesthetic. Those animations hit all the pleasure sensors. BTW, not only does he have "addressing city mayors" on his videos but apparently, there is also an old video addressed to "Mr. President" Vladimir Putin. So... right at Adam's alley.

[@flow185]

its does look like that one fallout fusion car, except in fallout they actually worked

[@livelongandtroll9108]

@@flow185 Pretty cool designs, IMO. I haven't played that game but I know it was inspired by a real car, the Messerschmitt KR200. And the one on Forza, the Rocket car, seems to take inspiration from GM's Firebird's II and III.

[@eleemikolaj]

I really like your videos, but I'm a bit disappointed you're pushing Masterworks. There are a lot of questions about them, and they could quite possibly be a scam.

[@andrewinnj]

Definitely reeks of being a scam. Amazing returns! Beats the S&P 500 5 times out of 10! All the smart money is buying fractional shares of works of art, which is a totally normal thing that everyone should do!

[@jajr4838]

The thing with the straddling bus is, it could work, but you would have spend years of trial and error and invest millions, not only in development, but also on adapting the streets to the bus. You could make it work, but before spending time and money in getting it working, most people would just build one of the many cheaper, simpler mediums of transportation that have already been made countless times before.

[@leonpaelinck]

But even if we could, why would we?

[@gisobo]

You're absolutely right! Now please do a debunk of Masterworks! 😬