SuperBus Answers to Your Texts October 11, 2006
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Sure, it looks like some sort of stretch SUV limo, but the SuperBus is actually a Dutch invention. Researchers at Delft University Technology in the Netherlands have created this aerodynamic bus that can go as fast as 155 mph while running on electricity.
The SuperBus will have roughly 30 seats with individual entrance/exit doors (no more shuffling around fat people to get in and out) and rather than make predetermined stops, it'll pick and drop people off based on their text message requests.
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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interesting...but why does it need to go 155 mph... it is a bus .. thatll make frequent stops.. you realize how long it would take to stop the bus going that fast..and if your texting the bus.. youd need to do it Wayy ahead of time... and howd it turn? and i like the extra axle but i think it could be cooler looking.. more iconic from the front.. how? idk.. your not paying me.
hoi hoe lang kan die bus zijn ik wacht op een andwoord
The students of the Delft University are lead to the wrong track: It is wasted time to project something, which does not even compile with the minimum requirements for passenger transport. The idea of a high speed bus-system is generally good, but it must have a compatibility to the common regulations. In fact, the design shown is a stretched limousine type, which would offer much less comfort, than a common bus. At least, such a system should allow easy access and the height, to walk to the certain seat.
Having doors at both sides of each seat-row only seems practical, but it is unrealistic under cost- and safety-measures. Another problem is luggage space, which is not provided in an adequate manner - passengers tend to carry more and more, even on board. Ask the airlines...
Sorry, but the teachers seem to send the students on a wrong way, the superbus seems to be a good marketing-tool, but will never make its way on our roads. And: on which roads will it cruise? The last unlimited motorways are in Germany - funny enough, that Dutch people think about something, that is so fast, that they could never use or test it on their own roads. Despite the fact, that road-holding and stability of such a long-wheelbase-thing have no chance to be under control.
Sorry to be so technical, but I do not understand, why some ideas are brought forward even it is visible at first sight, that the project is a dead-end one. Is that academic?
Yours sincerely J. Huebner