For your safety, in case of an earthquake, any limb sticking outside the bed will be broken or amputated automatically. Thank you for your cooperation.
The sad thing is if it doesn't amputate your limbs(causing you to bleed out) and actually does "Work as intended" you just die of suffocation if your lucky or dehydration if your not. I think I would rather be crushed to death. Heck, depending on the floor your on by the time they get to where you are enough time might of gone by to die of Starvation. And lets not forget about exposure...
Speaking of The Onion, seeing a bus that doesn’t alleviate traffic reminds me of their article “80% of road users think public transport is a great idea for other people”
@@erikkovacs3097 It is a genuine point though, public transport absolutely diminishes traffic simply because there's less people that absolutely have no other option except driving their own car.
The Onion is so good, a shame they can't continue with their high effort video shitposts. Edit: "Should the government stop dumping money into a giant hole" is my favourite.
Oh no if Governor "Nanny" Newsom sees he will mandate we all in California have one. Joke of the day How many Californians does it take to screw in a light bulb? None they cannot get the permit!
I like how the bullet-nose bus animation shows the buses just driving right through other vehicles some of the time, and the other vehicles sometimes just basically teleport from the freeway to the off-ramp.
Btw., the name "Gyrobus" is already taken. It refers to electric buses, which are able to store energy by using a flywheel as a sort of mechanical battery. Several of such vehicles were operated in Europe with mixed success. One of the things that prevented their massive adoption, along with breakdowns and mechanical issues, was the exact gyroscopic effect from the mechanical battery that Thunderf00t describes in this video as well and which made them very difficult to steer. In the end, the vehicles were replaced by regular trolleys or diesel buses.
The more time passes, the more conflicted I become as to whether the world is clearly off its meds, or, if in fact the world is on far too many meds... Y'know?
All ya gotta note is that of the almost 8 billion on this planet, almost 7 billion believe in gods and other magical thinking. Believing bonkers stuff is endemic 😂
Am I'm Telling YOU my See-Saw Satellite delivery system WILL. WORK. Product waits on one end, my ex-wife tossed down on the other. Ker-POW !!! Right into orbit !!! Just got to work out the height-drop needed, and GYROSCOPES !!!
I had a teacher who referred to this sort of thing as "conservation of complexity". It can seem like you're saving some sort of implementation cost, but then later on you have to pay for it by making something else a lot more complicated.
Planned obsolescence falls under that. Cars are built of plastic shit and cheap rubber. That few hundred dollars saving off a new car makes it last several times less. Then the parts are crammed in tight spaces and require significant disassembly. So cheap to assemble and manufacture... And impossible to economically repair.
Take into consideration the sheer amount of damage vehicles and weather do to roads. The vehicles driving regularly close to your buses track will damage the track. Undulations and ruts will form. Just like solar roadways not having any clue how regular wear from several thousand pound/kg beasts will destroy their panels.
@@pikachulovesketchup666 i dont think he speaks aboht the soaking of damage, but about purposeful reduction of usefull lifespan of a vehicle as a tool. Stuff these days is not expected to last 20 year.
@@TheGuruStud cars now last far longer than those from the 70s and 80s did & planned obsolescence is more a function of cost saving rather than purposefully wanting it to fail. cars now regularly last to 200k or 300k miles the reason they're crammed in tight spaces is because CONSUMERS want a lot of cars in smaller form factors. & because cars now are more complex than before, which isn't necessarily a bad thing as added complexity generally extracts more power from the engine while saving on gas
Those things that were dropped vertically from a cargo plane, once the enemy tanks showed up they just start firing shells from an arm with no barrel or anything 😆
Yeah, like up in aberdeen where they literally just burned the trams on the beach. At least glasgow was smart enough to sell the trams to Eastern Europe instead of just scrapping them
@@vibedudey2k710 Yeah, that is smarter. Having three bus companies run the bus network without an easy and affordable ticket to unite them though is a kick in the baws. Just a disgruntled Glaswegian.
The trams were replaced by busses which were more versatile. The new trams are more like trains and function in a different way and have a different use case.
You should do more from Dahir Insaat. They are absolutely insane, and they produce some ridiculous product concepts. I especially love/hate the earthquake safety bed and the drive-through grocery store. So glad you showed the bed
I think that the bed is not bad idea, but bad execution. With few changes it may be useful thing. You don't need that much food there and also not that much food, it doesn't need to close airtight and it should allow you to open a side from inside. But having a reinforced roof over bed, few water bottles and chocolate (because that is proven to help in stressful situation and what is more stressful than having whole building fall on you?). Maybe some of those oxygen generators/CO2 captures as used in submarines and you will survive in this for few days. And some kind of communication would be nice, so you can tell the rescue team that you are there, you are still alive and get some feedback with how long it will take to rescue you. So, good idea, but it needs major upgrade.
@@simonspacek3670 To be fair, the concept is definitely overengineered and if anyone is in an earthquake-prone area and afraid of earthquakes while they are in their bed, a much smarter solution would be simlpy to have a "canopy bed" made with some strengthened steel structure on most of the sides. This would do the basic job of giving you crush protection in case of a collapse. No unreliable trigger mechanisms and moving parts that pose a crush-risk themselves. You could even "run for cover" on the bed if you're elsewhere in the appartment and the earthquake has already started... Like the general advice of "stand in the doorway" or "hide underneath the furniture", you would just jump into the "bed cage" and cover yourself with the sheets (or crawl under the mattress).
@@simonspacek3670the earthquake bed has so many more problems that make it completely impractical. Besides there's already a solution and Japan already figured it out, engineer your buildings to not fall over when there's a quake.
@@DeaconPain No building is 100% earthquake proof. And I stand behind what I said, good idea, bad execution. I'm bit worried that making it right would be also damn expansive, but that is completely different question.
I like how at the start it shows the bus travelling in between lanes with cars perfectly spaced inside lanes.. then cuts to real life views of cars and bikes straddling between lanes, which would gridlock the buses too.
the narration says that there's no space for normal bus/train ways while having them in the video and showing a scene that would need total teardown to have space for the gyro-thingy-bus-thingy
Make it more simple and reliable - put it on 4 wheels, and let cars pass underneath. This way you don't need batteries or heavy complicated and loud flywheels, since you can get electricity from one line to the other. For safety, make the line out of segments that are pressure-activated. Actually, cars won't like passing underneath it. It's a safety hazard, so maybe just put it down to earth, for stability too. They would need to become more narrow, to fit in with traffic, but that's OK since you can make them longer instead. Actually, since its height is already stable, you can simplify the path and not have the live endpoint on any of the tracks but rather above the line, through some kind of wire. To make sure that people are aware of this long heavy structure, put some signal on it that's different from honking. Maybe a classic bell-like sound would help.
You hit more and more problems - eventually hanging monorail or elevated railroad (technically you could even have elevated trams - for better turning ratio) becomes MUCH cheaper and more efficient. Or... You could just design your road + public transport system a lot better. To be able to handle the amount of people and amount of vehicles.
I'm glad you brought up battlebots because the first time you said "while turning it will immediately derail" and thought "surely they haven't put a vertical flywheel in there", but the explanation on what happens with a horizontal flywheel and how a rail works makes perfect sense.
Watching your videos make me die inside every time, just by thinking that people are seriously consider the ideas you are debunking as viable and smart alternatives... great job as always👍
What happened to the saying: If it looks to good to be true it's probably not true... Instead people jump at any idea that pretends to promise the most while inconvenience their daily life the least without trying to apply critical thinking. Sure it's possible that someone will come out with some idea that will only have positive effects and not inconvenience anyone, but it's not bloody likely. Anything that simple/good we would have heard of before. If we want to cut down on traffic congestion in the city without massively increasing the available road space there's only a few realistic options. One is if we can make people use some other transportation than the car. Sounds good? Well then we need more busses, trains and/or trams. But we also need to get people to change their habits as travelling collectively will never be door to door like the car can do. Another option is to increase the efficiency of the traffic flow. This can theoretically be achieved, but it require that cars are self driving and slave to a centralized traffic control system. And it doesn't work if most are self driving. Any car not following traffic control will foul up the system. So yea, good luck with that. A third version would be kind of a combination using self driving cars, centralized traffic control and a leasing system where you don't have your personal car, but request one when needed. Kind of like a taxi system. That would also make it possible to have a few different sizes of cars available depending on the size of the party. Say two seaters, four seaters, six and eight seaters or whatever mix turns out to be economically feasible. But all of those are pipe dreams. People don't want to walk to a station to then wait for a buss or train, and then share the transportation with unknown people. We like shutting us in inside a shell keeping the unknowns at bay. We also dislike the idea of not having a car available NOW. Besides what if so many order up a car at the same time that there simply isn't enough of them to go around? You mean I might have to wait thirty minutes or more before the car is here? Screw that! Then there's the investments needed. If your manual driven car is suddenly no longer allowed to drive in the city then a lot of families would suddenly be unable to afford owning a car. And the "taxi" system might be cheaper, but at the same time you have no idea who used it before you. What if it was vandalized, some one puked in it and so on. Not very attractive right? And then there's the gearheads: "Self driving cars? What's next? Cutting my balls off to reduce manspreading? You can take your self driving cars and shove them where the sun don't shine!" And all of that would still require the self driving car to be perfected and computerized traffic control to be totally reliable. And if you think that can be done within the next ten years then I've got a bridge to sell you...
I think most people don't actually stop to think about things before they accept them. I even noticed this in videos about space-saving-furniture and stuff like that, where most ideas are actually pretty impractical and don't save any space at all, but most comments are of people just gobbling all of it whole.
@@skaruts I might have been guilty of this once or twice. But usually it's more fascination with some clever details than with the functionality. I can think of a table that could transform into something more like a shelf. It was mechanically clever but totally impractical for any use I could imagine. Then there's several different kinds of doors that open in non standard ways. 99% of the time they are no more practical than either a normal door or a sliding door, but usually they are a lot more likely to catch your fingers in a hinge. So mechanically interesting, looking cool but impractical. And yet I can't help but like the innovative design. Or how about the hovering bed that there were a lot of videos about a few years back. If I remember correctly there were a ton of rare earth magnets that repulsed each other to keep the bed floating, and then tethers to keep it from floating away from the magnets. Talk about impractical. Not only were there no real advantages other than it was easy to get the vacuum in under. On the other hand there better be no iron in the vacuum or you probably never got it out from there... And yet it caught my interest just because it was kind of a sci-fi dream. So yea, some times I can get caught up in an idea, but usually I catch myself before I hail it like the next coming...
The bed/coffin/oven trap is hilarious. When I was a kid ideas of the future always seemed to have 2000 tagged onto the end of the product, the 21st century equivalent seems to be to prefix it with hyper.
That's why I tag all my --bs ideas-- innovative new investment opportunities with "5000" - it's much better than 2000, which now sounds old and outdated.
@@andypayne2743 Haha, my username is actually a reference to the prehistoric ice man episode of south park, when they find the "prehistoric man" frozen in the ice from 1996 and he they thaw him out and he can't adjust to current times in 1999. Stand and Kyle are arguing about whether to call him "Steve" or "Gorak" when he clearly says his name is "Larry" - and then I tacked a "9000" on the end, because 9000 is even more betterer than 5000 - now where's my kickstarter money already???
About the bed/coffin thing, what if you were on the ground floor bedroom and someone on the second ans third floors were stacked on top of you in their thing?
I love how their animation assumes people drive their cars correctly and are not half in one lane and half in another lane trying to get over on a crowded street.
That's what happens when architects/designers design things without any engineer on the room to say "it doesn't work". I bet they are cancelled because of toxic masculinity or the patriarchy reeee
Wow! If only there was a vehicle - maybe a small one that a single person could ride - that had two large wheels that kept it stable and upright while in motion. Perhaps even have the front wheel attached to handlebars that enabled easy steering, and maybe a little bell as well? Call it something like a 'bi-cycle"? Could such a thing be possible? It would change the world!
You could attach a power source and some kind of prime mover to your two-wheeled vehicle so you can go a lot faster. And Thunderf00t's already got a great name for it: The Hyper-Cyclomobile.
You're never gonna convince the fake-futurism nerds with that name for your product. Call it "Hyper-Wheels-X" and you'll have them eating from your hand.
That sounds like a viable idea. In any case, a prototype would not be difficult or expensive to construct. In fact, you could use off-the-shelf bicycle parts.
7:00 "Airless vacuum tubes..." They work so much better than the air-filled vacuum tubes. 8:33 Another big reason gyro ship stabilizers never caught on is mechanical. Think about what the loads are when you have a 100-ton gyro correcting the roll of a 10's-of-thousands ton ship. My mechanical design professor used this as an example of a bad idea since the loads were so high that it tended to rip the gyro mounts out of the decking. 11:26 This design is so stable that it can reach almost 1 mph and only requires 3 guys walking along side to spot it in case it falls over!
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Hehe… the one we fully see walking alongside the "prototype" is constantly touching it. Also, notice at 16:08 where he tells her what to do if it starts to, well, tip? Why does she have to do any weight shifting, -if- when it *self*-stabilizes? ;-)
I forgot all about the Insta-coffin beds. I remember laughing my tail off at those when it was shared with me on Facebook. I didn't know Dahir was pimp of all these dumb things. Thanks Thunderf00t, I learned something new today.
@@markevans2294 A 4 poster bed with a reinforced canopy would be much safer, require no extra gadgets, and not risk slicing the occupant in half if it was triggered while they were getting in. Exactly how many modern wealth nations have buildings that collapse in earthquakes anyway. Clearly the places that need some extra safety, don't build earthquake proof buildings, of have populations that can afford stupid designs like this. NB. I use the word "design" very loosely.
There's also the very real negative effect that having those contradictions whizzing by would cause on the cars beneath them. Not only it's a moving object moving over your vehicle and competing for your visual and auditory attention, but it would cast a huge moving shadow beneath it. That shit would almost certainly cause more traffic accidents.
what would really cause traffic accidents it shose giant stilts suddenly trying to pass in front of you to turn a corner. (and also, I really do not see that giant stilt bus stopping quickly when it steps on the brakes; so you betten not get stuck in traffic in the wrong place when one of those things comes whizzing by)
@@captainnyet9855 Yeah I also wonder if the creators looked at how bad a train brakes with dozens of wheels on a track, then extrapolated that to a massive bus with giant flywheels with only two wheels on a track
The dub over on the capsule “launch” and subsequent dead passengers made me spit out my morning coffee!! Thanks a lot! 🤣 Also love the Matrix giggle. Lol
I'm trying to imagine the entire process leading to this RUclips video being made. All the people involved; the artist making the renderings, the news anchors...the list goes on and on....you can't possibly be the first person to think: "this is an insane plan and should never be considered"
Well that should be proof enough none of these projects have any real engineers working on them, just artists and idea people. Hyperloop is the finest example of that, any basic engineer can tell you all these futuristic ideas either wont work in process or will cost insane amounts of money if not both.
Usually as an artist or voice over artist, you just roll your eyes and tale the cash. I imagine it's the same for voice acting seedy animations, or drawing nasty commissions. Just get the money and keep moving lmao
I don't know why I was feeling a little low this morning but your videos always cheer me up. They're hilarious and informative. It's incredible to see the kind of bs people come up with and even more astounding to see so many people buy into it. The "companies" target audience is people who can't think even remotely logically, but it's mostly lobotomy patients I presume.
Busted videos...it's reassuring(and entertaining)to see someone fighting back against the empty promises of charlatans....but also depressing, because it's like trying to rid the world of weeds....eventually new ones replace what you killed.
imagine a bus, but it drives on it's own, pre-defined track and is elevated above the roads... it's called elevated railway; and the best part is you don't need a big spinning disc that's ready to fill the entire street with shrapnel as soon as something goes wrong.
@@Violant3 I'm reasonably certain a lot of people can no longer distinguish fiction from reality. They consume massive amounts of content of any sort, and they never investigate further. To them, the first headline they read does not just approximate the truth, it replaces the truth. And if something threatens to question their belief system, they can go on Reddit to be reaffirmed in their biases. I could go round and round, but you get the idea.
@@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS That's totally The Onion. If you read the text of the charts, it's hilarious/ridiculous! At 1:51: "Performing urgent surgical operations"????
For the same reason they listen to Elon Musk, conspiracy theories, "alternative" medicine, and religion: hope. They WANT to believe that all this cool stuff will happen and solve our problems, and will tune out anything that says otherwise.
well it may be interesting as a raw idea which still need some development. running few buss lines like that may be not that stupid after all. most of the time buses do not need to turn at all and it could be used to transport people over very short distances in the straight line. when it needs to turn it can just drive on normal wheels
you seem to be vastly overestimating human intelligence. think about how dumb the average human is. then get ready to lose hope for the future when you realize that half of the population are of below average intelligence.
Speaking of BattleBots, one of the most dangreous BattleBots out there was Hypno Disc, and would you guess it, it used a rotating disc (Like the 3rd option at 13:45) that made both it(sometimes) and whatever it hit(almost everytime) die instantly.
I was laughing out loud when I saw the earthquake proof bed. Imagine a safety inspector checking a building wondering why it has so many safety violations and the architect be like, "It's cool the earthquake beds will protect them."
The instant coffin bed is so hilarious I think I'll order 10 today! Thanks Dahir! Me and my entire family can suffocate to death inside of a padded box and my corpse won't stink up the place when rescue crews dig me out a week later.
For real these only seem practical if you live in a 1 floor house and it's made all out of particle board and Styrofoam with empty rooms all over and have a Beacon that will tell people your under ruble if you live in a apartment or mansion which would be the case if you can buy one your still going to be under a pile of rubble hopefully at least you have a air pocket much less food to last and how will you even piss in there while waiting for help if help even arrives asap?
We had gyroscopic gun stabilization on our tank gun and it was pretty good for firing at static targets if you were moving. However firing at moving targets whilst moving yourself was more of a challenge and required an experienced gunner, as you have to predict where the target is going to be at the moment of impact and only getting a moment where the sight intersected the targets future position. We fired at ranges where it might take a couple of seconds for the projectile to travel to the target. We basically fired in to thin air with the hope the target would make it to the impact point on time. But from Desert Storm you can see it worked to lethal effect.
New rule of thumb: Anything that looks like it was deliberately designed to look "futuristic", is almost certainly bullshit. Anyone who's met a real engineer knows that they tend to care next to nothing about what the product actually looks like.
What I absolutely love about this is the "As Seen On TV" vibe I get. He just needed to show someone struggling to drive a car in the most mundane of ways that we all do with no problem every day.
Oh boy, Dahir again. I can't believe they are still going strong with all their crazy ideas. I reccommend checking out all their other products for further unique ideas - such as a "drive-in market", a combat Quad Copter, a whole city block, and an automated resturant.
We already have 'combat quad copters'; they are called armed drones. (We knew this was coming in the current Eastern European affair.) Dahir really is out to lunch, isn't he?
and a fully autonmatic deployed giant quad drone that still gets its ammo loaded manually oh also parachutting rods from planes that turn into remote controlled anti tank weapon turrets
There's other ways to achieve self-balancing - laser gyroscope sensors (no moving parts) can be used to detect orientation, and automatic self-balancing can then be achieved pretty much the same way a person would - shifting weight, adjusting steering etc. IIRC that's what a Segway does - or did as they're not made any more. Anyway, self-balancing while using a "gyroscope" as a sensor only avoids some of the disadvantages, but keeps others and adds at least one new problem (power failure means the bus falls over almost immediately, not slowly as the gyroscope speed drops). You can probably save weight compared with having a heavy spinning gyroscope, but the less shiftable weight you have to maintain balance, the more important it is to distribute passengers evenly and sedate them so they don't move.
I just watched something a couple of days ago on a gyro bus used in Sweden. The flywheel was for energy storage but had handling problems for the driver. It was back in the 50's.
@@NerothLoD Yes. This novelty “wireless trolleybus” used a 3000 RPM vertical flywheel in a vacuum chamber spun up at stops and generating energy for electric motors during the ride. It was only marginally practical and lasted several decades without being expanded to other cities.
I absolutely love the fact that you used an Onion News video. I came across them a couple of years and it really surprised me that the humor was so unrestricted and of good quality despite being more than a decade old. Great stuff haha
Even if it somehow could turn on a dime, that thing would scrap buildings, traffic lights, and overpasses in a *lot* of cities. That doesn't even get into the massive damage someone wrecking into one would cause That doesn't even get into what kind of reinforcement would actually be needed to keep that heavy piece of crap from destroying the road and sinking into the dirt.
Yeah, it's funny to see when they say "naw, it's fine, it'll not impact the other traffic at all" in the video. Which, of course, is obviously only true on the straights, not on the intersections.
As someone who lives in a country with roundabouts, that piece of animation at 14:20 looked absolutely terrifying. It was one endless accident waiting to happen. And isn't this just another version of that elevated bus thing that was floating around a few years ago? A big two lane wide bus on stilts with wheels on the end of each stilt, driving down that rode over the tops of cars, the wheels on stilts fitting between car lanes. If you want o know what they'll come up with next, take a look at some of the covers from the 1930's "Astounding Stories".
For those people that want to make something between a car and a motorbike, haven't they heard of the Reliant Robin? Doesn't require a gyroscope, costs prob around £2.50, smaller than most cars, uses existing infrastructure, still have space to put your shopping in and still makes corners far more interesting than if you used something with four wheels!
Cornering while driving a 'Robin' is even more interesting if going fast enough backwards, been there, done that, and once I recomposed myself did it a few times more, they're hilarious little machines.
Holy shit, imagine trying to make a lane change and getting absolutely demolished by steel pillars gliding down the road nonstop. Ignore the fact that a suspended monorail would be much more practical in these use cases.
right? kept looking at those things traveling down the lanes thinking of what a potential accident they'd be, especially in that animation of the roundabout, as if that would ever work that smoothly! lol
Love the animation of the gyro bus and the claim that it will fit in the gaps between existing traffic lanes... cut to picture of existing traffic that has a car sitting between the two lanes right in the exact spot the gyro bus would be travelling, cut to second image of existing traffic with ANOTHER car sat between the two lanes.
There's this other gyro-stabilised invention that's already in use to mitigate traffic. It's large enough for one or two people, but small enough to slip through traffic. And it's very fast! We call it "the motorbike".
@@233kosta "E-bikes" are getting better and cheaper all the time. You just have to find a way to keep them from getting stolen. And then there's mopeds.
@@233kosta Personally, I'm not a fan of riding anything in traffic that uses the rider as crumple zones. Hospitals call them "donorcycles" for a reason. There's just too many idiots in SUVs on the road. Stay safe and good luck out there.
I think the next time I apply for a job I’m gonna make a CGI movie of me doing the job perfectly and that’ll be my résumé. Hell I’ll even add an a place in the city where the NPC‘s are so happy with my work that they’re throwing me a parade.
I worked on gyro “stabilized” aircraft in the navy (it was not stabilizing but relaying information to the flight computer about orientation to the ground) and it was one of the most expensive units on the aircraft
Since the Bus of the Future just got BUSTED!, for his next video I hope that Thunderf00t stays on the theme of busting wild transportation concepts with doing a video about this idea of a nuclear-powered airplane/hotel that can stay in the air indefinitely. It is some wild concept that I just started hearing about here in the U.S.
Hey, it's funnier if you quote it as-it-was-said: "effectively resists the effect of external moments of force". Tautological alliteration ftw! ;-) PS *brake
In the event of an emergency your bed transforms into a armored coffin to ensure your loved ones can recover your remains. As for that stupid gyro bus design two words Oversize Load. Any truck just a bit too tall or a bit too wide would be a massive collision risk with one of these making shared road use unacceptably risky
If we have to make a vehicle causing a catastrophic accident as soon as it loses power, i suggest we make it nuclear-powered. Might as well go all the way here.
Ha! Go big or go home, right? Just imagine...Houston decides to buy a fleet of these things without looking at any safety research, which probably wouldnt exist in the first place, and five seconds after it starts to move, half of Texas is irradiated!
@@seigeengine Thats a good idea, maybe someone to suggest to musk "your work comes to you, you dont go to work"...huge buildings on tracks!!!!!!!,,,GREAT IDEA!!!
See James Bruton's channel for two ways to properly use a gyroscope to balance. He built actual self-balancing robots using these techniques. Also note that gyroscopes are in fact used to stabilize boats. It might be impractical for something the size of a battleship, but they are used for yachts.
Phil, there were actual gyrobuses, operating and working. Long time before any CGI was available. Of course, they used the gyroscope as a mechanical spinning energy capture/release device. But they worked. Oerlikon build some of those. Of course, we realized even decades ago that an electric bus powered by overhead wires was a much better idea. We call these strange futuristic vehicles trolleybuses. They produce zero emmisions when operating in cities, they are silent. But they are not something "new", "exciting", "revolutionary". They represent a boring, mature and competitive technology, when used properly.
Trolleys were killed off in the U.S. by an actual, real conspiracy. Tire makers and some auto makers teamed up to buy and close down the trolley companies. Only a few remain, protected by historical preservation societies and laws.
@@Bacteriophagebs Trolleybus: noun, a bus powered by electricity obtained from overhead wires by means of trolley poles. You confuse trolleybus with streetcar, or tram.
to be fair. they were electric busses. that used flywheels to capture and release energy. so they are better named electric flywheel busses but because gyro buss sounds better they named it that way. here wikipedia describes how they work in dutch (oerlikon busses are dutch busses) : Bij de haltes langs de route klapt de Gyrobus een uit drie stangen bestaande stroomafnemer omhoog om krachtstroom (driefase wisselstroom) af te nemen voor een elektromotor die het vliegwiel op snelheid brengt - tot zo'n 3000 omwentelingen per minuut. it says at busstops a powerplug comes out to spin the FLYWHEEL up to 3000 rpm. now i know gyroscopes and flywheels look similar but one is to just rotate and can be in any direction. gyros are used for stabilisation or self leveling aspects. so yes a gyrobuss existed in name..... nice marketing... but they were flywheel busses. nothing similar to whats in this video
"But Main Street's still all cracked and broken! Sorry mom, the mob has spoken. Monorail! Monorail, Monorail! Mono- Doh!" - A certain animated TV show totally predicted this. lol
The actual "Bat-pod" from the Dark Knight is more functional. It really worked, and they didn't have to do anything special to make the cape fly in the wind, it's just physics, baby
I feel a tad bit concerned that they put food inside the 'safety bed'. It's like they're acknowledging that you're gonna be trapped. I used to work in sales and generally it's a good idea to avoid the topic of 'how my product will kill you'. You can live without food for months. It reminds me Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where there was a spaceship full of people kept in suspended animation for millions of years because the ship didn't have lemon scented napkins. The protagonist tried to argue with the ship's computer and it said that probability suggests that civilization will rise again and lemon scented napkins will become available. Until then there will be a short delay.
@@Jordan-Ramses The entire idea is just a sarcophagus. Albeit a very cool one (made of alumimininum). But I prefer the traditional iron maidens with spikes inside, they are more comfy. Its utter stupidity, earthquakes don't kill people when you have this: BUILDING CODES
2:41... I love how in their own CGI advert they show a situation where a single car having to swerve would kill everyone because it has no way of avoiding obstacles in their own animation. Like let's even ignore how impractical it is, they themselves show why even if they had magic fairy dust to make it magically function why it is a terrible idea while thinking they were showing how it is a good idea. I am sure that at this time stamp they were trying to show how other drivers are unpredictable and can cause you to have to avoid them and therefore we are safer, but they failed to notice how they animated said car swerving into the things track inevitably causing the thing to topple over killing the person in the car and half the people who are what looks to be 18 feet in the air. (We can even ignore the fact they they did not think about "hey here comes a bridge and a semi truck is right under us, guess we can't go down and therefore we are going to take out the bridge and potentially kill a dozen people in the process") There are so many things wrong in their own promo that you could totally ignore how impractical it is because they themselves are showing how deadly it would be if their magic fairy dust made it somehow exist. (Though let's not forget why fold down head lights and automatic seatbelts are no longer a thing, moving parts were out and break, if it is supposed to go up and down we can be 100% certain that if they could even make it that it would end up taking out a bridge when the moving parts inevitably broke). How on Earth did anyone making up this scam not realize how many different ways they themselves showed how extremely dangerous something like that would be if it was real. Like you don't even have to bust it, it is already killing itself by showing half a dozen ways how it could and would fail killing dozens of people.
I can't imagine being an animator and having to create a video, that is so obviously bullshit. I hope they got payed well to compensate for the inflicted brain damage.
Or if one of those flywheels disintegrates at full speed. In that case you've got a potential doomsday scenario where it'll turn the entire downtown area into a giant domino set.
This is the working of popular mechanics physicists, the type that still thinks ether controls energy, or that is a synonym to it. If the external forces to a perpetual circular motion system interact directly with the system said forces add to the magnitude of forces of certain direction of the overall system, if there is a surplus of forces in one direction the vertical stability of the mechanism fails, that's why you see the cars weaving like a trompo (which is an amazingly good subject to study what I'm talking, by the way).
3:19 I would call that "InstaCoffin" - if you are going to be buried alive under 1000s tons of steel and concrete, it's nice to have your own coffin so the excavators don't have to extract your body, simply move the coffin to a graveyard
I want to thank you for showing me the stupidity of these futuristic "projects". Before I found your channel a year or so back, I just believed Musk doesn't lie about anything, because everyone thinks that. It feels like a kinda "mass histeria" of musk-loving and delusion.
Yeah, it's a weird phenomenon. People were like that with Steve Jobs, he was marketed to be Mr. Wonderful and people just ate it up. Actually he was pretty much a garbage human being who denied his own daughter until she was a teenager. People actually thought that he was building and programming iphones in his garage when actually he was a businessman who hadn't programmed anything since 1983.
@@goJohnHenry Jeah. Its basically impossible for Anyone but Thunderfoot to convince people, that they're wrong about musk. I've been trying to convince my friends, not to accept that musk is lying, but just to try and see it objectively. And even thats impossible.
@@luh034 But your presumption is entirely wrong.... 1. Why do you have such a strong need to convince people that musk is lying? 2. Even if musk is lying, does that necessaringly mean that spaceX is a wrong? 3.If SpaceX cannot deliver all the goals it had 10 years ago, does that mean that the company itself is a scam? How many companies over promise and under deliver? 4. Why do you think that the people you try to convince that musk is lying even care about it? maybe they are just enthusiastic about space and rocket launches? So you may ask yourself, is it possible that you are just annoying everybody in the room because you want to argue about something nobody else cares about? A very german thing to do :P Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Some people say it was said by Eleanor Roosevelt)
@@Mouhfighter Well idk how to tell you, but I just state what I think. And when someone mentions Musk, talking about the new awesone thing he did, thats them stating their oppinion. If the musk-lovers are allowed to state what they think about Musk, so does anyone. And your awesome quote, is that supposed to attack me here? Or for that matter anyone being against Musk? Because I don't know how to break it to you, but you are doing the same thing, just arguing over a person and what he does. I don't want to convince people to have the same oppinion as me, and invalidate theirs, like you do rn, but I want people to see it objectively. And form their own opinnion on the matter. Hope that clears thing up. Sincerely, the annoying german.
17:12 Can we talk about the SOUND these things apparently make? If you think cities are loud now, wait until all the cars have giant, constantly buzzing flywheels inside of them...
Not to mention the screams of the occupants whenever the flywheel demounts and becomes a spinny death frisbee inside the bus. Oh, and the seating? 6 strangers side by side? Yeah, right.
Waiting on Elon Musk to come through is like waiting on the 2nd coming and has his audience held in the same grip; they're patient and willing to continue waiting forever while praying (and investing)
4:01 The bed *can* also be equipped with vents to let air in I'll take one without ventilation, thank you very much - no need for any unnecessary tacked on extra costs with my glorified coffin.
I was going to call you out on this video at the beginning - not because you were going to bust it, but because I believed that it was a fake video - nobody would actually believe that this was a serious proposal. Wow, just wow. You got me. The Onion clip of the Hyper-Bus is comparatively genius in comparison, along with being much closer to reality. Great video!
It's almost as if they should be on rails... And maybe have four wheels... And maybe be powered by electric wires above them... And maybe they should be separated from the cars, wait fuck that's just a *train*
For your safety, in case of an earthquake, any limb sticking outside the bed will be broken or amputated automatically. Thank you for your cooperation.
lol right? imagine getting bisected cuz it accidentally triggered as you were getting into bed, or decapitated cuz you were just getting up :'D
@@SpydersByte tecnically youre safe from an earth quake then
Also remember: no smashing on the earthquake bed!
The sad thing is if it doesn't amputate your limbs(causing you to bleed out) and actually does "Work as intended" you just die of suffocation if your lucky or dehydration if your not. I think I would rather be crushed to death. Heck, depending on the floor your on by the time they get to where you are enough time might of gone by to die of Starvation. And lets not forget about exposure...
Haha good point
Speaking of The Onion, seeing a bus that doesn’t alleviate traffic reminds me of their article “80% of road users think public transport is a great idea for other people”
I feel like there is something to the idea that people want everyone else to take public transport so that they can free up traffic for themselves.
@@erikkovacs3097 It is a genuine point though, public transport absolutely diminishes traffic simply because there's less people that absolutely have no other option except driving their own car.
True for me. Public transport in my region is very lacking and crowded. As I could afford a car, I switched.
@@Darca1n Of course. But the point of the article was that the majority wanted everyone else to give up their cars & leave the roads free for them.
The Onion is so good, a shame they can't continue with their high effort video shitposts.
Edit: "Should the government stop dumping money into a giant hole" is my favourite.
That insta coffin thing looks like something secret services might be interested in.
A human trap, ready for transport!
Next stop, the afterlife!
When you are wanted by the CIA and someone replaced your normal bed with a six foot tall monstrosity totally not kidnap ready
Oh no if Governor "Nanny" Newsom sees he will mandate we all in California have one. Joke of the day How many Californians does it take to screw in a light bulb? None they cannot get the permit!
@@SP-sy5nq A perfect bdsm bed too, trap your sub inside for a few hours
The best way to kidnap people XD
Now I just want Thunderf00t to make a 50 part series covering Dahir's insanity.
I'm already a RUclips addict. Do you even care what this could do to me!? 😱 🛎 🛎 🛎
I like how the bullet-nose bus animation shows the buses just driving right through other vehicles some of the time, and the other vehicles sometimes just basically teleport from the freeway to the off-ramp.
I'm sure you know that video of the bullet-bus is satire, but others may not and that's the sad part.
@@Phil8sheo the bus just zipping around means that the bus is a god touhou player that owns every single fumo
This stuff looks like it would fit right in a 1950's futurism magazine.
It doesn't just LOOK like it would be, that's EXACTLY what this would be.
Looks like them buildings for sure lmao
That's where they get their ideas from.
Sounds like those "city of the future" videos of the 50s indeed
I have actually seen an illustration in one of those magazines that's pretty much exactly this
I love how the animations show it going over only cars. Good luck getting that thing over trucks in the city.
Good luck not colliding with the "rail" when the bus crosses 3 traffic roads at once on that roundabout too :D
Yeah think the problems are a bit more fundamental than just avoiding other cars.
It shows lifting up to go over a bus at the beginning tho
think about all the traffic lights and signs we have up there too, and imagine the motor that lifts the whole thing up
Trees, light posts, and traffic control devices are also going to be a problem.
Btw., the name "Gyrobus" is already taken. It refers to electric buses, which are able to store energy by using a flywheel as a sort of mechanical battery. Several of such vehicles were operated in Europe with mixed success. One of the things that prevented their massive adoption, along with breakdowns and mechanical issues, was the exact gyroscopic effect from the mechanical battery that Thunderf00t describes in this video as well and which made them very difficult to steer. In the end, the vehicles were replaced by regular trolleys or diesel buses.
Yep in Switzerland and Belgium ruclips.net/video/LHyUDihL_FQ/видео.html
Hopefully they'll be replaced by electric buses instead. Or trams.
@@AstralS7orm Unfortunately, this only happened in some cases.
But why can't TF ever make it through a debunking video with mentioning electric Jesus?
What if the buses had two gyro batteries that spin in opposite directions, would that make a difference?
The more time passes, the more conflicted I become as to whether the world is clearly off its meds, or, if in fact the world is on far too many meds... Y'know?
All ya gotta note is that of the almost 8 billion on this planet, almost 7 billion believe in gods and other magical thinking. Believing bonkers stuff is endemic 😂
The world is off the rails.
Am I'm Telling YOU my See-Saw Satellite delivery system WILL. WORK. Product waits on one end, my ex-wife tossed down on the other. Ker-POW !!! Right into orbit !!! Just got to work out the height-drop needed, and GYROSCOPES !!!
@@kevinwarner3771, how come it didn't work when Wylie Coyote tried it? The Roadrunner just laughed at him.
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You would think there would be less cars in the animation
Considering how good this system is
It's self-deprecating. Once you get people to use it, there will be less cars and lesser need for an elevating gyro bus.
Even within this make believe world where the tech exists and works, the vast majority of the people still don't trust or use it!
@@mik13ST If you take out cars, and just make a double-width bus, you accomplish the same number of people.
Lol Of course. They had to have congestion in order to show that the crazy idea made sense.
I had a teacher who referred to this sort of thing as "conservation of complexity". It can seem like you're saving some sort of implementation cost, but then later on you have to pay for it by making something else a lot more complicated.
Planned obsolescence falls under that. Cars are built of plastic shit and cheap rubber. That few hundred dollars saving off a new car makes it last several times less. Then the parts are crammed in tight spaces and require significant disassembly. So cheap to assemble and manufacture... And impossible to economically repair.
Please be sure to put some indoor outhouses on these buses. I want to fire off a gigantic deuce and clear the room.
Take into consideration the sheer amount of damage vehicles and weather do to roads. The vehicles driving regularly close to your buses track will damage the track. Undulations and ruts will form.
Just like solar roadways not having any clue how regular wear from several thousand pound/kg beasts will destroy their panels.
@@pikachulovesketchup666 i dont think he speaks aboht the soaking of damage, but about purposeful reduction of usefull lifespan of a vehicle as a tool. Stuff these days is not expected to last 20 year.
@@TheGuruStud cars now last far longer than those from the 70s and 80s did & planned obsolescence is more a function of cost saving rather than purposefully wanting it to fail. cars now regularly last to 200k or 300k miles
the reason they're crammed in tight spaces is because CONSUMERS want a lot of cars in smaller form factors. & because cars now are more complex than before, which isn't necessarily a bad thing as added complexity generally extracts more power from the engine while saving on gas
"that makes you rich not smart" love this quote. more people, especially wealth-venerating Americans need to hear that.
I love Dahir’s understanding of ballistics: one of his videos shows shells being pulled out and fired from an arm without any barrel.
Can't let physics get between a person and their dreams! :p
Those things that were dropped vertically from a cargo plane, once the enemy tanks showed up they just start firing shells from an arm with no barrel or anything 😆
I remember when lots of towns in the UK had Trams. Then they were scrapped, now they are being put back at huge cost.
Yeah, like up in aberdeen where they literally just burned the trams on the beach. At least glasgow was smart enough to sell the trams to Eastern Europe instead of just scrapping them
@@vibedudey2k710 Yeah, that is smarter. Having three bus companies run the bus network without an easy and affordable ticket to unite them though is a kick in the baws. Just a disgruntled Glaswegian.
We are all living the hangover of the motor industry raping the tram and train infrastructure.
The trams were replaced by busses which were more versatile. The new trams are more like trains and function in a different way and have a different use case.
@@aaronmicalowe nope, trams were and are better than busses in cities and towns.
You should do more from Dahir Insaat. They are absolutely insane, and they produce some ridiculous product concepts. I especially love/hate the earthquake safety bed and the drive-through grocery store. So glad you showed the bed
I think that the bed is not bad idea, but bad execution. With few changes it may be useful thing. You don't need that much food there and also not that much food, it doesn't need to close airtight and it should allow you to open a side from inside. But having a reinforced roof over bed, few water bottles and chocolate (because that is proven to help in stressful situation and what is more stressful than having whole building fall on you?). Maybe some of those oxygen generators/CO2 captures as used in submarines and you will survive in this for few days. And some kind of communication would be nice, so you can tell the rescue team that you are there, you are still alive and get some feedback with how long it will take to rescue you.
So, good idea, but it needs major upgrade.
@@simonspacek3670 To be fair, the concept is definitely overengineered and if anyone is in an earthquake-prone area and afraid of earthquakes while they are in their bed, a much smarter solution would be simlpy to have a "canopy bed" made with some strengthened steel structure on most of the sides. This would do the basic job of giving you crush protection in case of a collapse. No unreliable trigger mechanisms and moving parts that pose a crush-risk themselves. You could even "run for cover" on the bed if you're elsewhere in the appartment and the earthquake has already started... Like the general advice of "stand in the doorway" or "hide underneath the furniture", you would just jump into the "bed cage" and cover yourself with the sheets (or crawl under the mattress).
@@Iguana93 I 100% agree. Basically old style bed with baldachin on steroids.
@@simonspacek3670the earthquake bed has so many more problems that make it completely impractical. Besides there's already a solution and Japan already figured it out, engineer your buildings to not fall over when there's a quake.
@@DeaconPain No building is 100% earthquake proof. And I stand behind what I said, good idea, bad execution. I'm bit worried that making it right would be also damn expansive, but that is completely different question.
I like how at the start it shows the bus travelling in between lanes with cars perfectly spaced inside lanes.. then cuts to real life views of cars and bikes straddling between lanes, which would gridlock the buses too.
the narration says that there's no space for normal bus/train ways while having them in the video and showing a scene that would need total teardown to have space for the gyro-thingy-bus-thingy
Make it more simple and reliable - put it on 4 wheels, and let cars pass underneath. This way you don't need batteries or heavy complicated and loud flywheels, since you can get electricity from one line to the other. For safety, make the line out of segments that are pressure-activated.
Actually, cars won't like passing underneath it. It's a safety hazard, so maybe just put it down to earth, for stability too. They would need to become more narrow, to fit in with traffic, but that's OK since you can make them longer instead.
Actually, since its height is already stable, you can simplify the path and not have the live endpoint on any of the tracks but rather above the line, through some kind of wire.
To make sure that people are aware of this long heavy structure, put some signal on it that's different from honking. Maybe a classic bell-like sound would help.
They did pretty much exactly what you're describing in China and scrapped it because it just wasn't a good idear (from the first bit)
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And call it something futuristic, like hyper-tram, or just tram for short.
@@giselle2054 wanted to write the same
You hit more and more problems - eventually hanging monorail or elevated railroad (technically you could even have elevated trams - for better turning ratio) becomes MUCH cheaper and more efficient.
Or...
You could just design your road + public transport system a lot better. To be able to handle the amount of people and amount of vehicles.
I'm glad you brought up battlebots because the first time you said "while turning it will immediately derail" and thought "surely they haven't put a vertical flywheel in there", but the explanation on what happens with a horizontal flywheel and how a rail works makes perfect sense.
Watching your videos make me die inside every time, just by thinking that people are seriously consider the ideas you are debunking as viable and smart alternatives... great job as always👍
What happened to the saying: If it looks to good to be true it's probably not true...
Instead people jump at any idea that pretends to promise the most while inconvenience their daily life the least without trying to apply critical thinking.
Sure it's possible that someone will come out with some idea that will only have positive effects and not inconvenience anyone, but it's not bloody likely. Anything that simple/good we would have heard of before. If we want to cut down on traffic congestion in the city without massively increasing the available road space there's only a few realistic options. One is if we can make people use some other transportation than the car. Sounds good? Well then we need more busses, trains and/or trams. But we also need to get people to change their habits as travelling collectively will never be door to door like the car can do. Another option is to increase the efficiency of the traffic flow. This can theoretically be achieved, but it require that cars are self driving and slave to a centralized traffic control system. And it doesn't work if most are self driving. Any car not following traffic control will foul up the system. So yea, good luck with that. A third version would be kind of a combination using self driving cars, centralized traffic control and a leasing system where you don't have your personal car, but request one when needed. Kind of like a taxi system. That would also make it possible to have a few different sizes of cars available depending on the size of the party. Say two seaters, four seaters, six and eight seaters or whatever mix turns out to be economically feasible.
But all of those are pipe dreams. People don't want to walk to a station to then wait for a buss or train, and then share the transportation with unknown people. We like shutting us in inside a shell keeping the unknowns at bay. We also dislike the idea of not having a car available NOW. Besides what if so many order up a car at the same time that there simply isn't enough of them to go around? You mean I might have to wait thirty minutes or more before the car is here? Screw that!
Then there's the investments needed. If your manual driven car is suddenly no longer allowed to drive in the city then a lot of families would suddenly be unable to afford owning a car. And the "taxi" system might be cheaper, but at the same time you have no idea who used it before you. What if it was vandalized, some one puked in it and so on. Not very attractive right? And then there's the gearheads: "Self driving cars? What's next? Cutting my balls off to reduce manspreading? You can take your self driving cars and shove them where the sun don't shine!"
And all of that would still require the self driving car to be perfected and computerized traffic control to be totally reliable. And if you think that can be done within the next ten years then I've got a bridge to sell you...
I think most people don't actually stop to think about things before they accept them. I even noticed this in videos about space-saving-furniture and stuff like that, where most ideas are actually pretty impractical and don't save any space at all, but most comments are of people just gobbling all of it whole.
@@blahorgaslisk7763 Because we have the technology and no ethics.
@@skaruts I might have been guilty of this once or twice. But usually it's more fascination with some clever details than with the functionality. I can think of a table that could transform into something more like a shelf. It was mechanically clever but totally impractical for any use I could imagine.
Then there's several different kinds of doors that open in non standard ways. 99% of the time they are no more practical than either a normal door or a sliding door, but usually they are a lot more likely to catch your fingers in a hinge. So mechanically interesting, looking cool but impractical. And yet I can't help but like the innovative design.
Or how about the hovering bed that there were a lot of videos about a few years back. If I remember correctly there were a ton of rare earth magnets that repulsed each other to keep the bed floating, and then tethers to keep it from floating away from the magnets. Talk about impractical. Not only were there no real advantages other than it was easy to get the vacuum in under. On the other hand there better be no iron in the vacuum or you probably never got it out from there...
And yet it caught my interest just because it was kind of a sci-fi dream.
So yea, some times I can get caught up in an idea, but usually I catch myself before I hail it like the next coming...
He is debunking onion videos
The bed/coffin/oven trap is hilarious.
When I was a kid ideas of the future always seemed to have 2000 tagged onto the end of the product, the 21st century equivalent seems to be to prefix it with hyper.
That's why I tag all my --bs ideas-- innovative new investment opportunities with "5000" - it's much better than 2000, which now sounds old and outdated.
@@gorak9000 username checks out
@@andypayne2743 Haha, my username is actually a reference to the prehistoric ice man episode of south park, when they find the "prehistoric man" frozen in the ice from 1996 and he they thaw him out and he can't adjust to current times in 1999. Stand and Kyle are arguing about whether to call him "Steve" or "Gorak" when he clearly says his name is "Larry" - and then I tacked a "9000" on the end, because 9000 is even more betterer than 5000 - now where's my kickstarter money already???
About the bed/coffin thing, what if you were on the ground floor bedroom and someone on the second ans third floors were stacked on top of you in their thing?
Go watch Idiocracy....
Love the Battlebots cameos! It helped me understand gyro physics better.
I love how their animation assumes people drive their cars correctly and are not half in one lane and half in another lane trying to get over on a crowded street.
Maybe the idea is that, after witnessing a few people getting pancaked inside their cars, they'll learn their lesson quite quickly.
@@captainnyet9855 I think the bus would just fall over.
I feel my brain cells dying just looking at that 'bus'
Imagine being a brain cell of however made the animation.
That's what happens when architects/designers design things without any engineer on the room to say "it doesn't work".
I bet they are cancelled because of toxic masculinity or the patriarchy reeee
@@monad_tcp Lame...
My first thought on seeing the design: Okay, but why, though?
Stop smoking weed then
Wow! If only there was a vehicle - maybe a small one that a single person could ride - that had two large wheels that kept it stable and upright while in motion. Perhaps even have the front wheel attached to handlebars that enabled easy steering, and maybe a little bell as well? Call it something like a 'bi-cycle"? Could such a thing be possible? It would change the world!
You could attach a power source and some kind of prime mover to your two-wheeled vehicle so you can go a lot faster. And Thunderf00t's already got a great name for it:
The Hyper-Cyclomobile.
SolarGyroBikeCycleHyper
Might want to look into if you could make it generate drinking water from the air as you zoom down the road in this beast
You're never gonna convince the fake-futurism nerds with that name for your product. Call it "Hyper-Wheels-X" and you'll have them eating from your hand.
I think Vespa has a claim...
That sounds like a viable idea. In any case, a prototype would not be difficult or expensive to construct. In fact, you could use off-the-shelf bicycle parts.
7:00 "Airless vacuum tubes..." They work so much better than the air-filled vacuum tubes.
8:33 Another big reason gyro ship stabilizers never caught on is mechanical. Think about what the loads are when you have a 100-ton gyro correcting the roll of a 10's-of-thousands ton ship. My mechanical design professor used this as an example of a bad idea since the loads were so high that it tended to rip the gyro mounts out of the decking.
11:26 This design is so stable that it can reach almost 1 mph and only requires 3 guys walking along side to spot it in case it falls over!
Hehe… the one we fully see walking alongside the "prototype" is constantly touching it. Also, notice at 16:08 where he tells her what to do if it starts to, well, tip? Why does she have to do any weight shifting, -if- when it *self*-stabilizes? ;-)
Sounds like a more expensive/over engineered version of the sedan chair when you describe it that way.
actually, air-filled vacuum tubes work remarkably well; tough you usually still want to have a broom.
@@captainnyet9855 - as long as the air is moving through those tubes!
I forgot all about the Insta-coffin beds. I remember laughing my tail off at those when it was shared with me on Facebook. I didn't know Dahir was pimp of all these dumb things. Thanks Thunderf00t, I learned something new today.
They include a fire extinguisher but not bottled oxygen, carbon-dioxide scrubber and a phone/radio.
One of those looks like can slice limbs or head
@@markevans2294 A 4 poster bed with a reinforced canopy would be much safer, require no extra gadgets, and not risk slicing the occupant in half if it was triggered while they were getting in. Exactly how many modern wealth nations have buildings that collapse in earthquakes anyway. Clearly the places that need some extra safety, don't build earthquake proof buildings, of have populations that can afford stupid designs like this. NB. I use the word "design" very loosely.
You too can get buried alive in the comfort of your own home!
@@memkiii I mean Florida has condos that collapse without earthquakes, so... at least 1???
There's also the very real negative effect that having those contradictions whizzing by would cause on the cars beneath them. Not only it's a moving object moving over your vehicle and competing for your visual and auditory attention, but it would cast a huge moving shadow beneath it. That shit would almost certainly cause more traffic accidents.
what would really cause traffic accidents it shose giant stilts suddenly trying to pass in front of you to turn a corner. (and also, I really do not see that giant stilt bus stopping quickly when it steps on the brakes; so you betten not get stuck in traffic in the wrong place when one of those things comes whizzing by)
@@captainnyet9855 Yeah I also wonder if the creators looked at how bad a train brakes with dozens of wheels on a track, then extrapolated that to a massive bus with giant flywheels with only two wheels on a track
The dub over on the capsule “launch” and subsequent dead passengers made me spit out my morning coffee!! Thanks a lot! 🤣
Also love the Matrix giggle. Lol
The part where you layered your voice takes to simulate a crowd…priceless entertainment and spot on. I spit my espresso out!
If you liked that bit, you should watch the vera space station busted video, that one kills me too XD
I'm trying to imagine the entire process leading to this RUclips video being made. All the people involved; the artist making the renderings, the news anchors...the list goes on and on....you can't possibly be the first person to think: "this is an insane plan and should never be considered"
Well that should be proof enough none of these projects have any real engineers working on them, just artists and idea people. Hyperloop is the finest example of that, any basic engineer can tell you all these futuristic ideas either wont work in process or will cost insane amounts of money if not both.
Usually as an artist or voice over artist, you just roll your eyes and tale the cash. I imagine it's the same for voice acting seedy animations, or drawing nasty commissions. Just get the money and keep moving lmao
So at last, you've finally found the inexhaustible goldmine that is Dahir Insaat.
The Retsupurae coverage of these videos from years ago was incredibly hillarious.
I don't know why I was feeling a little low this morning but your videos always cheer me up. They're hilarious and informative. It's incredible to see the kind of bs people come up with and even more astounding to see so many people buy into it. The "companies" target audience is people who can't think even remotely logically, but it's mostly lobotomy patients I presume.
Yeah, I needed a Busted video to get things going today!
@@Sharlenwar same here, it really hit the spot. thunderfoot tied a bunch of other stuff in too which is always entertaining.
Busted videos...it's reassuring(and entertaining)to see someone fighting back against the empty promises of charlatans....but also depressing, because it's like trying to rid the world of weeds....eventually new ones replace what you killed.
Was just about to comment the same thing. Hope your day gets better my man.
I feel like that most of these "revolutinary transit projects" could be solved with a su way or a train
imagine a bus, but it drives on it's own, pre-defined track and is elevated above the roads...
it's called elevated railway; and the best part is you don't need a big spinning disc that's ready to fill the entire street with shrapnel as soon as something goes wrong.
And also, if you just want to you use buses, just do a BRT.
"Success is one of the possible outcomes."
That would need to be demonstrated.
i instinctively facepalmed when i heard that phrase... how can people take this guy seriously?
@@Violant3 I'm reasonably certain a lot of people can no longer distinguish fiction from reality. They consume massive amounts of content of any sort, and they never investigate further. To them, the first headline they read does not just approximate the truth, it replaces the truth. And if something threatens to question their belief system, they can go on Reddit to be reaffirmed in their biases. I could go round and round, but you get the idea.
I can't imagine how anyone would take this seriously.
1:08 isn't this the onion?
@@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS That's totally The Onion. If you read the text of the charts, it's hilarious/ridiculous!
At 1:51: "Performing urgent surgical operations"????
For the same reason they listen to Elon Musk, conspiracy theories, "alternative" medicine, and religion: hope. They WANT to believe that all this cool stuff will happen and solve our problems, and will tune out anything that says otherwise.
well it may be interesting as a raw idea which still need some development.
running few buss lines like that may be not that stupid after all.
most of the time buses do not need to turn at all and it could be used to transport people over very short distances in the straight line. when it needs to turn it can just drive on normal wheels
you seem to be vastly overestimating human intelligence. think about how dumb the average human is. then get ready to lose hope for the future when you realize that half of the population are of below average intelligence.
Speaking of BattleBots, one of the most dangreous BattleBots out there was Hypno Disc, and would you guess it, it used a rotating disc (Like the 3rd option at 13:45) that made both it(sometimes) and whatever it hit(almost everytime) die instantly.
*robotwars
@Random Songs In Locrian
Hypnodisk and Philippa Forrester were my favourites.
You could say it's BUSted!
missed opportunity right there!
This sent their heads spinning like a gyro
BU, Say it with me: Buuuuuuuu
I see what you did there. I’m so clever🥹
Yeah, but you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.
I was laughing out loud when I saw the earthquake proof bed. Imagine a safety inspector checking a building wondering why it has so many safety violations and the architect be like, "It's cool the earthquake beds will protect them."
I wouldn't call them earthquake beds, but florida condo coffins - Truth In Advertising and whatnot
I'm going to have horrible nightmares now that I've been exposed to this "earthquake bed" tomb.
Why can't this be combined with solar FREAKIN' roadways, the waterseer and a thorium powered coffee maker/massage seats for the ultimate crowd funder?
And wifi-connected shoes!
@@scottydu81 ... That can't have been an actual Kickstarter
Edit: Oh my god.
@@BlueRidgeBubble Also check out the smart salt shaker and the smart water bottle
Thorium powered coffee makers could make really _hot_ coffee.
Thank you Thunderfoot for breaking this stuff down for everyday people, like myself, to help see past the "too good to be true" inventions.
The instant coffin bed is so hilarious I think I'll order 10 today! Thanks Dahir! Me and my entire family can suffocate to death inside of a padded box and my corpse won't stink up the place when rescue crews dig me out a week later.
"It *can* be fitted with vents". :D
Dracula wanted haptics in his coffin. He can turn into a bat to get out of it, and there's no danger of cut off limbs or suffocation.
For real these only seem practical if you live in a 1 floor house and it's made all out of particle board and Styrofoam with empty rooms all over and have a Beacon that will tell people your under ruble if you live in a apartment or mansion which would be the case if you can buy one your still going to be under a pile of rubble hopefully at least you have a air pocket much less food to last and how will you even piss in there while waiting for help if help even arrives asap?
Christmas presents for the umm Ex, or in-laws.
We had gyroscopic gun stabilization on our tank gun and it was pretty good for firing at static targets if you were moving. However firing at moving targets whilst moving yourself was more of a challenge and required an experienced gunner, as you have to predict where the target is going to be at the moment of impact and only getting a moment where the sight intersected the targets future position. We fired at ranges where it might take a couple of seconds for the projectile to travel to the target.
We basically fired in to thin air with the hope the target would make it to the impact point on time. But from Desert Storm you can see it worked to lethal effect.
7:44 you don't understand how much I love these dubs you do. They're absolutely hilarious.
New rule of thumb: Anything that looks like it was deliberately designed to look "futuristic", is almost certainly bullshit. Anyone who's met a real engineer knows that they tend to care next to nothing about what the product actually looks like.
Also, _"if you like this idea, and want to fund the creation of one, invest now!"_ = scam.
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The "earthquake safety bed" is the funniest thing I've seen in a while!
What I absolutely love about this is the "As Seen On TV" vibe I get. He just needed to show someone struggling to drive a car in the most mundane of ways that we all do with no problem every day.
Oh boy, Dahir again. I can't believe they are still going strong with all their crazy ideas.
I reccommend checking out all their other products for further unique ideas - such as a "drive-in market", a combat Quad Copter, a whole city block, and an automated resturant.
Automated (partially) restaurants actually existed for a while. They were called Automats. The first one opened in Berlin in 1895.
Just checked. It is insanity 🤣
Hours and hours of unintentional absurdist comedy)
We already have 'combat quad copters'; they are called armed drones. (We knew this was coming in the current Eastern European affair.) Dahir really is out to lunch, isn't he?
and a fully autonmatic deployed giant quad drone that still gets its ammo loaded manually
oh also parachutting rods from planes that turn into remote controlled anti tank weapon turrets
There's other ways to achieve self-balancing - laser gyroscope sensors (no moving parts) can be used to detect orientation, and automatic self-balancing can then be achieved pretty much the same way a person would - shifting weight, adjusting steering etc. IIRC that's what a Segway does - or did as they're not made any more. Anyway, self-balancing while using a "gyroscope" as a sensor only avoids some of the disadvantages, but keeps others and adds at least one new problem (power failure means the bus falls over almost immediately, not slowly as the gyroscope speed drops). You can probably save weight compared with having a heavy spinning gyroscope, but the less shiftable weight you have to maintain balance, the more important it is to distribute passengers evenly and sedate them so they don't move.
I just watched something a couple of days ago on a gyro bus used in Sweden. The flywheel was for energy storage but had handling problems for the driver. It was back in the 50's.
Wasn't it Switzerland?
@@NerothLoD Yes. This novelty “wireless trolleybus” used a 3000 RPM vertical flywheel in a vacuum chamber spun up at stops and generating energy for electric motors during the ride. It was only marginally practical and lasted several decades without being expanded to other cities.
@@vaclavtrpisovsky That's it, was it Switzerland?
I absolutely love the fact that you used an Onion News video. I came across them a couple of years and it really surprised me that the humor was so unrestricted and of good quality despite being more than a decade old. Great stuff haha
The fact that they put 2 different music pieces on 1 simulation is just mindblowing. Who listened to that and thought well thats great.
Even if it somehow could turn on a dime, that thing would scrap buildings, traffic lights, and overpasses in a *lot* of cities. That doesn't even get into the massive damage someone wrecking into one would cause
That doesn't even get into what kind of reinforcement would actually be needed to keep that heavy piece of crap from destroying the road and sinking into the dirt.
17:06 "This right here is a gyroscope. This is the key to making you deaf"
The bus thing was hilarious, but you buried the lead. I lost it at the freaking earthquake bed!
🤣🤣
One of my all time favorite Onion skits. Along with the National Girlfriends trying to move in with the with National Boyfriends.
The gyrobus roundabout looks genuinely scary even if it where to work perfectly, no way is traffic able to deal with it properly.
Yeah, it's funny to see when they say "naw, it's fine, it'll not impact the other traffic at all" in the video. Which, of course, is obviously only true on the straights, not on the intersections.
Gyrobus: why have one traffic jam when you can have two?
I've been familiar with this guys' videos for YEARS. His videos are always going viral because they're so impractical.
Yeah, the Onion News Network was great satire! I guess they ran out of money because they don't produce them anymore.
High-speed buses, weaving in and out... seems safe!
Speed 1 remastered..
@@Mehrunes86 Pop quiz Hotshot! 😆
I can only think about the number of tickets the driver might get to driver like a manic.
Xynrae, I know a lot of bus drivers who drive like that, it’s the only way to keep to time
It's a joke, it has to be. I'm only up to the part with the earthquake beds and no this guy is a comedic genius
As someone who lives in a country with roundabouts, that piece of animation at 14:20 looked absolutely terrifying. It was one endless accident waiting to happen. And isn't this just another version of that elevated bus thing that was floating around a few years ago? A big two lane wide bus on stilts with wheels on the end of each stilt, driving down that rode over the tops of cars, the wheels on stilts fitting between car lanes. If you want o know what they'll come up with next, take a look at some of the covers from the 1930's "Astounding Stories".
all of these ideas boil down to "what if we took elevated rail and made it worse in very way?"
>> As someone who lives in a country with roundabouts
@@arthurballs9632 - Are you suggesting that Milton Keynes is a country?
@@joanevans9508 As you're being serious. Yes; yes, I am.
Long Live the glorious nation of Milton Keynes.
@@arthurballs9632 - I'm in Australia. We have roundabouts.
For those people that want to make something between a car and a motorbike, haven't they heard of the Reliant Robin?
Doesn't require a gyroscope, costs prob around £2.50, smaller than most cars, uses existing infrastructure, still have space to put your shopping in and still makes corners far more interesting than if you used something with four wheels!
Just be careful if you see a Mini being driven by a funny looking man with dark hair.
😂
BMW c1 anybody? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1
Cornering while driving a 'Robin' is even more interesting if going fast enough backwards, been there, done that, and once I recomposed myself did it a few times more, they're hilarious little machines.
Where can I buy it for £2.50?
I will even pay £3 for such nice car.
Holy shit, imagine trying to make a lane change and getting absolutely demolished by steel pillars gliding down the road nonstop. Ignore the fact that a suspended monorail would be much more practical in these use cases.
right? kept looking at those things traveling down the lanes thinking of what a potential accident they'd be, especially in that animation of the roundabout, as if that would ever work that smoothly! lol
Monorail 🎵 Monorail 🎵 Monorail🎵 😂
Proves it will stay upright in the event of a car crash by gently pushing it. Bravo.
Love the animation of the gyro bus and the claim that it will fit in the gaps between existing traffic lanes... cut to picture of existing traffic that has a car sitting between the two lanes right in the exact spot the gyro bus would be travelling, cut to second image of existing traffic with ANOTHER car sat between the two lanes.
There's this other gyro-stabilised invention that's already in use to mitigate traffic. It's large enough for one or two people, but small enough to slip through traffic. And it's very fast!
We call it "the motorbike".
There are even ones that don't need any fuel and that keeps you healthy. It's called the bike
@@islaymassive1530 Used to ride one of those, but they're a bit slow for my taste (and I'm too fat 🤣), especially on motorways
@@233kosta "E-bikes" are getting better and cheaper all the time. You just have to find a way to keep them from getting stolen. And then there's mopeds.
@@Bacteriophagebs Indeed they are, but for the moment a 125 seems optimum for me. Maybe one day electrics will be able to completely replace that
@@233kosta Personally, I'm not a fan of riding anything in traffic that uses the rider as crumple zones. Hospitals call them "donorcycles" for a reason. There's just too many idiots in SUVs on the road.
Stay safe and good luck out there.
Ahhhh, so nice to see the Good Idea Fairy is alive and well... and still proposing solutions that are answers to questions no one ever asked.
I think the next time I apply for a job I’m gonna make a CGI movie of me doing the job perfectly and that’ll be my résumé.
Hell I’ll even add an a place in the city where the NPC‘s are so happy with my work that they’re throwing me a parade.
And if your trade is animation that would actually be a hilarious meta portfolio.
@@PalladinPoker it really would :D thats actually a great portfolio idea for a graphic artist/animator lol
I worked on gyro “stabilized” aircraft in the navy (it was not stabilizing but relaying information to the flight computer about orientation to the ground) and it was one of the most expensive units on the aircraft
Those systems are insane!
Since the Bus of the Future just got BUSTED!, for his next video I hope that Thunderf00t stays on the theme of busting wild transportation concepts with doing a video about this idea of a nuclear-powered airplane/hotel that can stay in the air indefinitely. It is some wild concept that I just started hearing about here in the U.S.
he... he actually did.
They can do a nuclear power airplane that could stay in the air for a long time. But, spewing radioactive exhaust around the world is frowned upon.
@@NBSV1 Nuclear reactors aren’t exactly known for radioactive exhaust. Especially since we already have naval vessels that have nuclear reactor
my morning prayers have been answered... cheers!
Shoutout to Slowbeef for discovering years ago the goldmine of amazing projects from Dahir Insaat.
Great video! So much crazy stuff out there these days that needs to be talked about critically.
0:20 "effectively resists external moments of force" imagine trying to break and having a device in your vehicle that sabotages your effords
Hey, it's funnier if you quote it as-it-was-said: "effectively resists the effect of external moments of force". Tautological alliteration ftw! ;-)
PS *brake
In the event of an emergency your bed transforms into a armored coffin to ensure your loved ones can recover your remains. As for that stupid gyro bus design two words Oversize Load. Any truck just a bit too tall or a bit too wide would be a massive collision risk with one of these making shared road use unacceptably risky
GET OUT OF THE WAY, THE BUS OF THE FUTURE IS HERE 😂😂😂
If we have to make a vehicle causing a catastrophic accident as soon as it loses power, i suggest we make it nuclear-powered. Might as well go all the way here.
Ha! Go big or go home, right? Just imagine...Houston decides to buy a fleet of these things without looking at any safety research, which probably wouldnt exist in the first place, and five seconds after it starts to move, half of Texas is irradiated!
Maybe what we really need to do is put our buildings on rails. Nuclear powered skyscrapers on rails is the best idea.
@@seigeengine Thats a good idea, maybe someone to suggest to musk "your work comes to you, you dont go to work"...huge buildings on tracks!!!!!!!,,,GREAT IDEA!!!
Thorium powered!
@@seigeengine A much better anti earthquake device than the bed-coffins. Let the buildings roll.
See James Bruton's channel for two ways to properly use a gyroscope to balance. He built actual self-balancing robots using these techniques.
Also note that gyroscopes are in fact used to stabilize boats. It might be impractical for something the size of a battleship, but they are used for yachts.
As so many people keep saying...
Just build a FREAKING TRAIN!!
Phil, there were actual gyrobuses, operating and working. Long time before any CGI was available. Of course, they used the gyroscope as a mechanical spinning energy capture/release device. But they worked. Oerlikon build some of those. Of course, we realized even decades ago that an electric bus powered by overhead wires was a much better idea. We call these strange futuristic vehicles trolleybuses. They produce zero emmisions when operating in cities, they are silent. But they are not something "new", "exciting", "revolutionary". They represent a boring, mature and competitive technology, when used properly.
Trolleys were killed off in the U.S. by an actual, real conspiracy. Tire makers and some auto makers teamed up to buy and close down the trolley companies. Only a few remain, protected by historical preservation societies and laws.
@@EvanBear I am not Swiss. Are you?
@@Bacteriophagebs Trolleybus: noun, a bus powered by electricity obtained from overhead wires by means of trolley poles. You confuse trolleybus with streetcar, or tram.
to be fair. they were electric busses. that used flywheels to capture and release energy. so they are better named electric flywheel busses but because gyro buss sounds better they named it that way.
here wikipedia describes how they work in dutch (oerlikon busses are dutch busses) : Bij de haltes langs de route klapt de Gyrobus een uit drie stangen bestaande stroomafnemer omhoog om krachtstroom (driefase wisselstroom) af te nemen voor een elektromotor die het vliegwiel op snelheid brengt - tot zo'n 3000 omwentelingen per minuut.
it says at busstops a powerplug comes out to spin the FLYWHEEL up to 3000 rpm.
now i know gyroscopes and flywheels look similar but one is to just rotate and can be in any direction. gyros are used for stabilisation or self leveling aspects.
so yes a gyrobuss existed in name..... nice marketing... but they were flywheel busses.
nothing similar to whats in this video
@@erikziak1249 Yes, sorry that's a swiss company so I assumed. My bad!
"But Main Street's still all cracked and broken! Sorry mom, the mob has spoken. Monorail! Monorail, Monorail! Mono- Doh!" - A certain animated TV show totally predicted this. lol
The actual "Bat-pod" from the Dark Knight is more functional. It really worked, and they didn't have to do anything special to make the cape fly in the wind, it's just physics, baby
2:40 - The BUSTED honeypot!
I feel a tad bit concerned that they put food inside the 'safety bed'. It's like they're acknowledging that you're gonna be trapped. I used to work in sales and generally it's a good idea to avoid the topic of 'how my product will kill you'. You can live without food for months.
It reminds me Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where there was a spaceship full of people kept in suspended animation for millions of years because the ship didn't have lemon scented napkins. The protagonist tried to argue with the ship's computer and it said that probability suggests that civilization will rise again and lemon scented napkins will become available. Until then there will be a short delay.
@@Jordan-Ramses The entire idea is just a sarcophagus. Albeit a very cool one (made of alumimininum). But I prefer the traditional iron maidens with spikes inside, they are more comfy.
Its utter stupidity, earthquakes don't kill people when you have this: BUILDING CODES
@@Jordan-Ramses months? No.
also putting the standard VW (WOB for Wolfsburg home of VW) license plate on a Renault :D
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 yes months. You're not using a lot of calories locked in a box. A month if you're thin. Multiple months if you're fat.
Even at NASA, things go woosh in space.
Imagine someone throws rocks in those tight openings on the ground, one small slip and that gigantic soap will wash the roads with horrors.
2:41... I love how in their own CGI advert they show a situation where a single car having to swerve would kill everyone because it has no way of avoiding obstacles in their own animation. Like let's even ignore how impractical it is, they themselves show why even if they had magic fairy dust to make it magically function why it is a terrible idea while thinking they were showing how it is a good idea. I am sure that at this time stamp they were trying to show how other drivers are unpredictable and can cause you to have to avoid them and therefore we are safer, but they failed to notice how they animated said car swerving into the things track inevitably causing the thing to topple over killing the person in the car and half the people who are what looks to be 18 feet in the air. (We can even ignore the fact they they did not think about "hey here comes a bridge and a semi truck is right under us, guess we can't go down and therefore we are going to take out the bridge and potentially kill a dozen people in the process")
There are so many things wrong in their own promo that you could totally ignore how impractical it is because they themselves are showing how deadly it would be if their magic fairy dust made it somehow exist. (Though let's not forget why fold down head lights and automatic seatbelts are no longer a thing, moving parts were out and break, if it is supposed to go up and down we can be 100% certain that if they could even make it that it would end up taking out a bridge when the moving parts inevitably broke).
How on Earth did anyone making up this scam not realize how many different ways they themselves showed how extremely dangerous something like that would be if it was real. Like you don't even have to bust it, it is already killing itself by showing half a dozen ways how it could and would fail killing dozens of people.
I can't imagine being an animator and having to create a video, that is so obviously bullshit. I hope they got payed well to compensate for the inflicted brain damage.
Or if one of those flywheels disintegrates at full speed. In that case you've got a potential doomsday scenario where it'll turn the entire downtown area into a giant domino set.
Did you see the new Jurassic World movie?
They literally have a Hyperloop at their headquarters, except they completely forgot about the vacuum part.
This is the working of popular mechanics physicists, the type that still thinks ether controls energy, or that is a synonym to it. If the external forces to a perpetual circular motion system interact directly with the system said forces add to the magnitude of forces of certain direction of the overall system, if there is a surplus of forces in one direction the vertical stability of the mechanism fails, that's why you see the cars weaving like a trompo (which is an amazingly good subject to study what I'm talking, by the way).
3:19 I would call that "InstaCoffin" - if you are going to be buried alive under 1000s tons of steel and concrete, it's nice to have your own coffin so the excavators don't have to extract your body, simply move the coffin to a graveyard
I want to thank you for showing me the stupidity of these futuristic "projects". Before I found your channel a year or so back, I just believed Musk doesn't lie about anything, because everyone thinks that. It feels like a kinda "mass histeria" of musk-loving and delusion.
Yeah, it's a weird phenomenon. People were like that with Steve Jobs, he was marketed to be Mr. Wonderful and people just ate it up. Actually he was pretty much a garbage human being who denied his own daughter until she was a teenager. People actually thought that he was building and programming iphones in his garage when actually he was a businessman who hadn't programmed anything since 1983.
@@goJohnHenry Jeah. Its basically impossible for Anyone but Thunderfoot to convince people, that they're wrong about musk. I've been trying to convince my friends, not to accept that musk is lying, but just to try and see it objectively. And even thats impossible.
@@luh034 But your presumption is entirely wrong....
1. Why do you have such a strong need to convince people that musk is lying?
2. Even if musk is lying, does that necessaringly mean that spaceX is a wrong?
3.If SpaceX cannot deliver all the goals it had 10 years ago, does that mean that the company itself is a scam? How many companies over promise and under deliver?
4. Why do you think that the people you try to convince that musk is lying even care about it? maybe they are just enthusiastic about space and rocket launches?
So you may ask yourself, is it possible that you are just annoying everybody in the room because you want to argue about something nobody else cares about? A very german thing to do :P
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Some people say it was said by Eleanor Roosevelt)
@@Mouhfighter Well idk how to tell you, but I just state what I think. And when someone mentions Musk, talking about the new awesone thing he did, thats them stating their oppinion. If the musk-lovers are allowed to state what they think about Musk, so does anyone.
And your awesome quote, is that supposed to attack me here? Or for that matter anyone being against Musk? Because I don't know how to break it to you, but you are doing the same thing, just arguing over a person and what he does.
I don't want to convince people to have the same oppinion as me, and invalidate theirs, like you do rn, but I want people to see it objectively. And form their own opinnion on the matter.
Hope that clears thing up.
Sincerely, the annoying german.
@@Mouhfighter Oh and all of your points about spaceX, would you be so kind, as to tell me where I said that in my original comment?
That car motorcycle thing at the end yeah that's not gonna work in Canada for half the year when there's crap ton of snow on the ground.
17:12 Can we talk about the SOUND these things apparently make? If you think cities are loud now, wait until all the cars have giant, constantly buzzing flywheels inside of them...
Not to mention the screams of the occupants whenever the flywheel demounts and becomes a spinny death frisbee inside the bus. Oh, and the seating? 6 strangers side by side? Yeah, right.
Nice to see the old Onion news reader. She was an absolute professional.
Imagine sliding into the sea in one of those earthquake beds XD
The future archeologists would have a field day with it
Waiting on Elon Musk to come through is like waiting on the 2nd coming and has his audience held in the same grip; they're patient and willing to continue waiting forever while praying (and investing)
. . . and they'll try and burn you if you express any doubt about their favoured messiah . . .
He's too busy running Tesla into the ground.
@@thomasbecker9676 Tesla parts are all made in China, then assembled in the USA. This is why Musk has never ever dared to criticize the CCP.
@@troy3456789 Elon will jump in bed with whomever it is in his best interest to. Why do you think he's suddenly a conservative poster boy?
The similarities are truly disturbing. Agree 👍 👍
imagine living in a country that has fucked up its public transportation and road system so bad that THIS is even being discussed
@Patrick Hamos it isn't lol not in cities anyway
Can't relate. Europe is a paradise.
@@EvanBear compared to America it is heaven
@Marie you sound like a white supremacist.
In China, a similar kind of ‘bus in stilts’ was also discussed seriously.
If these people had actually invented "the future of transport" they'd have it funded before the CGI was finished
4:01 The bed *can* also be equipped with vents to let air in
I'll take one without ventilation, thank you very much - no need for any unnecessary tacked on extra costs with my glorified coffin.
All it needs is a flip up gravestone on the front and you could just leave it where it falls.
@@Forest_Fifer also one of them had padlocks on the outside.
They should put a large oxygen tank in that bed/coffin thing, in case of a fire 🤪
Lol because oxygen tank is a fire hazard too! Make it the Death trap bed to have lol!
Makes a good instant coffin though. Maybe they should market it as an instant coffin.
I was going to call you out on this video at the beginning - not because you were going to bust it, but because I believed that it was a fake video - nobody would actually believe that this was a serious proposal. Wow, just wow. You got me. The Onion clip of the Hyper-Bus is comparatively genius in comparison, along with being much closer to reality. Great video!
Imagine the weight of the entire vehicle focused on two wheels. If it ever moves off the reinforced area, it would immediately sink into the pavement.
That was pretty much my first thought when I saw them.
It's almost as if they should be on rails... And maybe have four wheels... And maybe be powered by electric wires above them... And maybe they should be separated from the cars, wait fuck that's just a *train*