China develops new bus that travels above traffic jams

It is very irritating to be stuck in traffic and that too when we are busy. Now, engineers in China have come up with a solution and that could blow your mind. It looks like a giant, car-eating transformer, but China is hoping this new vehicle concept will be the answer to its crippling traffic problems. The vehicle called the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), the electricity-powered vehicle concept straddles the highway over two lanes, transporting passengers on its upper deck, while cars pass under one of its four double-decker carriages.

'With a carrying capacity of 1,200 people at a time, the TEB has the same functions as the subway while its cost of construction is less than one fifth that of the subway,' said Bai Zhiming, engineer in charge of the TEB project said in a YouTube video showing an interview with CCTV News.'Its construction can be finished in one year,' he added.The bus would be faster and cheaper to build than a subway, according to the designers.

The design would help ease traffic jams and -- because its powered by electricity -- be more environmentally friendly.Each "bus" can carry between 1,200 to 1,400 people and passengers use an elevator to get on and off the bus at set stops along the route.

However, questions still remain as to how safe the TEB will be, considering the scale model at the expo used only cars and not tall and heavy vehicles such as trucks and vans, to demonstrate how it would work.The demo model also lacked safety barriers that separated the cars from the bus, raising safety concerns on traffic collisions which are already common throughout the country's roads.