apperantly its from Shanghai and is also a sort of Bus? A Very odd machine...
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This makes more sense to me. I don't see any advantage to laying a physical rail if you are just building a bus.
You can make it longer, adding more passenger space.
A bus that long wouldn't be able to make many turns except at the largest of intersections. Probably safer too since there's less dependence on the driver being good. They just need to know when to speed up and hit the brakes.
Rails are far more fuel efficient too.
Articulated buses can make tight turns and electronic guideways mean the driver doesn't have to steer either. I guess this might be a method of making turns across roadways for curb guided buses, but this doesn't appear to be a guideway bus. It also doesn't look like it could go over a bump.
The only advantage I can think of is more easily lining it up with level boarding platforms.
But buses on an electronic guideway can do that too.