Tag: BUSES

In the future, tiny bike and the hulking city bus -- currently mortal enemies -- may actually be on the same team. Designer Chiyi Chen's Hybrid2 bike concept is intended to allow the human energy exerted on rented bikes to power fleets of city buses, sans fuel. Essentially, the hybrid rental bikes would work much like hybrid cars: a regenerative braking system would preserve energy for later ...

You may not have noticed, but buses just got all Buses 2.0: a new GPS device, already installed on thousands of NYC buses, enables authorities to remotely control one should it be hijacked. They'll be able to slow the vehicle down to 5 mph and prevent it from restarting once it has stopped. The idea, obviously, is to prevent jihad-style bus attacks on the city. Essentially, the device is ...