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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Traffic-Swallowing Straddling Bus


Have you ever been in traffic and thought, I wish I had a car that could drive over all the cars in front of me? Yeah, I have too. Well thanks to a great new invention 2011 in China, this may become a possibility. The Straddling bus. It was designed to deal with areas where traffic gets extremely congested. The bus is 18 feet tall and 25 feet wide, and can carry a maximum of 1,200 passengers. It is powered by a combination of solar panels and municipal electricity. According to the New York Times, this bus could take the place of forty normal size buses, and save approximately 860 tons of fuel. READ MORE

Japan tests World's Fastest Train

The latest magnetically levitated Maglev train has a record speed of 581kph.


Central Japan Railway has been testing the latest version of its magnetically levitated Maglev train, the fastest ground-moving vehicle in the world.

Connecting Tokyo to Osaka, the train will travel the 514km distance in only 67 minutes. The train has a record speed of 581kph.

The first part of the track to Nagoya is scheduled to be finished by 2025.