China's elevated bus completes first road test
The TEB was first introduced at the Beijing International High-Tech Expo in 2010.
The transit elevated bus, TEB-1, is 22 meters long, the width of two traffic lanes, and is designed to travel over cars that are less than half its height.
Though the congestion-beating concept vehicle defies convention, a first road test took place on August 2, 2016 in Qinhuangdao, north China, according to state press agency Xinhua News Agency (via TechCrunch).
The city-based road test took place under controlled conditions; it evaluated braking, drag, and power consumption, Xinhua said.
The TEB was first introduced at the Beijing International High-Tech Expo in 2010, with a scale model demonstrated at the same event earlier this year.
As an electric-powered, lane-straddling vehicle, the TEB-1 runs on fixed rails but is intended to ease traffic congestion by allowing other, smaller vehicles to pass underneath it and vice versa.