COOLEST Idea Of The Year? China's 3-D Fast Bus

I just didn't think anyone had it in them to do something this extreme.

In order to stave off some of the hardcore traffic erupting throughout China -- thanks to its newborn car love -- a Chinese firm is getting cracking on trying to build what may be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.

A bus/train/whateveryouwanttocallit kind of vehicle that essentially "rolls over" traffic. Uh, what are we in the year 2100?

**To get a better grasp of the way this system will work, get a look at the video down below...


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Struggling under mounting congestion problems and facing an explosion in automobile sales, China may build a novel bus-train hybrid people-mover that rolls over cars.

Resembling an open-mouthed whale, the vehicle, known as a "3-D Fast Bus" (which apparently sounds much more modern in Chinese), would run on stilt-like legs, whisking passengers along about 14 feet above the road and allowing traffic to pass underneath.

The vehicle can run either on rails laid on each side of the road, or on wheels programmed to stay on special lines painted on the pavement. Hitched together in a line of four, the transporter could move up to 1,200 passengers...