So reading the article it sounds like this is just a catchy headline. They’re not seriously looking into building them:
“Despite significant engineering hurdles, it is conceptually feasible to operate buses safely at high speeds under controlled conditions,” the review reads. “However, real-world implementation requires incremental approaches, substantial investments in infrastructure, technology, and rigorous validation through field tests.”
“It might offer as a complementary option alongside existing solutions like rail, not to replace them,” Mehdi Moeinaddini, a senior transportation planner at Caltrans, told KCRA about the high-speed buses."
Could be intended as a stopgap until the rail is complete. But yeah that first quote reads to me as a “we know this is a dumbfuck idea, but someone is insisting on us checking and isn’t taking the hint when we try telling them.”
So reading the article it sounds like this is just a catchy headline. They’re not seriously looking into building them:
Could be intended as a stopgap until the rail is complete. But yeah that first quote reads to me as a “we know this is a dumbfuck idea, but someone is insisting on us checking and isn’t taking the hint when we try telling them.”
Or it’s something a tech bro pitched to try and kill the rail line AGAIN.
Probably that too