It ain't a limo but a bus of the future

• BÃ¥seline

  13 Oct 06, 00:13

  
  
  
  IT LOOKS rather like a futuristic stretch limousine, but its actual function is rather more populist: 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.
• laurence82

  13 Oct 06, 00:45

  is it too long?
  
  
• baby_tiger

  13 Oct 06, 00:47

  er... but most probably won't have it in s'pore right? even if they really use it elsewhere... s'pore too smal... looks quite cute tho...
• jetabt767400

  13 Oct 06, 01:03

  What I am afraid of, is the long chassis and the support in between.
  Plus, I also thought of a super fast bus before, running 260km/h on highways, any possibility? Very long and straight lah...
• Ito_^

  13 Oct 06, 01:04

  chio!
• shinkansen

  13 Oct 06, 03:30

  Haha... I think not for Singapore. May be Malaysia.
• missqi

  13 Oct 06, 03:36

  so sleek.
  
• mhcampboy

  13 Oct 06, 06:41

  Dunno i will still be alive to see it in the future...
• nomood

  13 Oct 06, 07:15

  not likely to work.
  
  it is too thin and long to be structurally rigid. you'll need at least a 4th set of wheel in the centre.
  
• JerzZzzZ

  13 Oct 06, 08:10

  road humps > superbus
• SBS9828X

  13 Oct 06, 10:31

  turning onli can cause the bus to break into two
• wonderamazement

  13 Oct 06, 10:38

  So long how to turn around corners?