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What will happen when a car or trunk with a height higher than accepted is on the road ? On a tunnel it is easier to guard against it because there is only 2 entrances and it happens a lot, but on a road with multiple cross road it will block cars and the tram. All this show is poor planning, the solution is to use a car line for a tram line or to plane a tram line in advance. But it is still a nice hack, and it will be interesting to test how drivers will behave with it.

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Given the speed it goes at, 40mph max it says in the article, I guess most of the time cars would be zooming underneath it. In which case, the scenario will be that the bus-thing will block larger trucks from going past it as they cannot go under or around. Then those trucks will block cars, and the whole 2-lane traffic will slow to a crawl behind this monstrosity.

It seems unlikely that they would operate it on roads with significant truck traffic. I guess it might be hard to avoid roads that are used by delivery trucks, but they would be less likely to follow it for long distances (and in cities those roads would anyway tend to have speed limits closer to 40 mph).

Ah that's true, thinking were I live in Europe there are a few 2 lane main roads through the city, in fact I live on one, with that kind of limit or even less. No way you'd get up to 40mph there. This looks great and reminds me of something from Thunderbirds, but a normal bus seems much more practical!

I want to see the turning radius of that thing... Maybe with a "yakety sax" soundtrack...

Proposal for turning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQnZFkKwGFU&t=1m51s

Now I want to see a right turn ;)

Perhaps it doesn't. Doesn't UHaul employ routes that only do right turns or something?

for public traffic this is a death trap waiting to spring, but I can see it working to have a tram line dubbing as parking area. but they'd need to have three lanes under to get decent space efficiency out of it

I have to imagine the lanes this will use are divided from the rest, and the entrance to those lanes has a "maximum height" barrier like you see at drive-throughs.

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