China building Gigantic buses as it forges ahead.

[heech]

Quote from dtan1e:

u can always pay the cop

In many Chinese cities, the entire ticketing process is entirely automated. You will log onto a specific website every few weeks/months, and find out whether you have any tickets against you.

 

[peilthetraveler]

Quote from MohdSalleh:

The video explains that there are sensors all over, if you get too close to the side of the bus, it will take a picture of your car and call the cops on you.

Police in asian countries are not like police in the US. In all the time i've spent there I have never EVER seen 1 cop write a ticket or pull someone over for a traffic infraction. The cops there just do not cruise around looking for offenders like over here. From what I saw, the only time people get stopped is at checkpoints and even then i've never seen a cop write ticket.

 

[limitdown]

Quote from shortie:

any Chinese who spent some time in US will confirm that the level of corruption in China is so high that US can be classified as corruption free by comparison.

if you have compliments about the good 'ole US of A, then

they are much welcomed.

Travel broadens the mind, and from the stories that I continue to hear about the 3rd and 4th world conditions, being worse than reading a novel of fiction or watching one of these Mad Max movies gone wild...

Hope springs eternal, but reality persists....

 

[joe4422]

Quote from Clubber Lang:

The Unites States is corrupt. The governement is bought and paid for by corporations and other special interest groups.

Come on now, the US is the freest country in the world. If you believe their is corruption, you have complete and utter freedom to share that info with everyone. Not so in China. Buck the system in China, and you'll be jailed or killed.

 

[joe4422]

Quote from heech:

In many Chinese cities, the entire ticketing process is entirely automated. You will log onto a specific website every few weeks/months, and find out whether you have any tickets against you.

What planet called China are you talking about? The police don't issue tickets unless you demand them to. You just pass money out the window, and it goes into their pockets. Except in rare occasions when there is a government sponsored event.

 

[heech]

Quote from joe4422:

What planet called China are you talking about? The police don't issue tickets unless you demand them to. You just pass money out the window, and it goes into their pockets. Except in rare occasions when there is a government sponsored event.

Good question. We are obviously talking about different planets.

Here's a link to the traffic ticketing system for over 100 different cities in China:
http://sz.bendibao.com/cyfw/2006814/fw2436.asp

Same site mentions a new service in Shenzhen I find interesting... Register your cell phone, and they will text you if they find your car illegally parked. You ha
ve ten minutes to move.

 

[Debaser82]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESfEd180rQ&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[heech]

Apparently the design has been approved for use in a district of Beijing (as of yesterday), and it is going into actual engineering/production. Timeline looks like this:

- initial prototype manufactured within 3 months,
- laying of rails might start by the end of this year,
- July 2011, trial runs.
- end of 2011, actual operation.

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2010-08-25/045520968616.shtml

 

[WaveStrider]

Since accidents are an inevitability, it will be interesting to see how this thing deals with a highway-speed impact.

 

[heech]

Quote from WaveStrider:

Since accidents are an inevitability, it will be interesting to see how this thing deals with a highway-speed impact.

I believe high-speed bus systems in China are designed on average to travel around 30 km/h, or approximately 25 mph. These things don't travel on the equivalent of the interstate.