Road Sweeping, China Style
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 30, 2012 05:31 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cars, China, Hubei, Made in China, Technology, Video Gallery
The stupefying quality of Chinese innovation is once again the subject of appreciation online, this time in the form of the nation’s unique new approach to street sweeping.
A video of one of the devices in operation:
The Hubei province road authority responsible for the machine apparently claims this saves the labour of 20 broom wielding sweepers, assuming it ever employed them in the first place.
Some have claimed the contraptions have been in use across China for years, although as Chinese language searches for “road sweeper” only return images of more conventional road sweeper trucks and this peculiar model, it seems likely to be a recent innovation.
Whilst the simplicity of the design has won some admirers, others have pointed out that as in practice the brooms merely fling the dirt into another lane or onto the side-walk (and doubtless onto other vehicles or pedestrians) without vacuuming it up, the whole exercise is essentially pointless.
Sadly, this unique Chinese approach to cheaply copying public services whilst singularly failing to reproduce their sole useful element already has many prior precedents.
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.......and then one of brooms flies off and causes huge explosion
even if that doesn't happen, if they keep up this level of inventiveness they will explode at some point.
That sweeper...
DEY TUKK MAH JERB
Dustaplosion.
I wonder how many witches they killed to get those brooms.
You don't think they got Marisa or Kiki do you!?
They got Sayaka.
But then she exploded.
Mind = Sweeper
:D
"Mine" Sweeper
No, the road explodes.
You're questioning Chinese innovation considering you lot have been coming out with the same jokes over and over? Seems like your wit is declining as fast as your economy.
so low tech that it's high tech. no, this is actually pretty good. kudos to the guy who invented it, as it's probably just as good as whatever we have over here.
Tesla would be proud!
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NOT!
Spider-Broom, Spider-Broom.
Does whatever a Spider-Broom does.
Can it clean China's roads?
No, it can't, it's not a broom.
Look out, it is a Spider-Broom!
More like the wheel will explode and the broom will fly in all directions.
hahaha XD oh chinese people they never bore me!!!
and if there is shit in the floor, watch out! because this thing will throw it your way.
The shit will hit the fan.
I lol'd
And then explode.
this is fucken boss!
Marisa Kirisame does not approve.
But Nitori & all the gnomes of Mount Nevermind probably do!
Nice.
You have made a made a simple machine that can replace 20 sweepers, stir up the dust when dry, splash mud on the passenger and passing vehicle when wet, sweep road without look...very innovative.
if it is in china then doing this is not job friendly for job seeker
Eat my dust! Bite my stone! This thing is not sweeping, it is spreading dust all around the air!!!!
Isn't that what sweeping does?
no, mr.chinalogic.
sweeping the dust to pile them up & disposing them. THAT is sweeping.
If that sweeper spins so fast that it lifts that pickup truck into the sky, then I'll be amazed in a whole different way.
This has nothing to do with cleaning streets.
It's a way to make people buy more surgical masks.
lol is all im doing
It must be a good business for the driver of the sweeper truck if he also owns a car windshield and house window replacement business. What will they think of next a cookie that tells your future?..
No fresh news ; it hit the lolwebs several years ago... it's surprising that things are still running, though o_o
The video was posted on the 1st of may 2011 though...
Not really that "new" anymore is it? :p
This looks like something I would have invented, but never accepted, ever. It's too abnormal in my country. :V
wheres my fucking comment. I tried to post it two times and never showed it up ò_ó
It's not like the road sweeping trucks are any better. All they do too is fling dirt around while wasting fuel and tax payer dollars.
that made me check if it was April 1st yet
That getto ass road sweeper! Get the FUCK OUT OF HERE!
No ghetto I've ever been in would use that!
Not ghetto enough.
not enough? are you blind?
That is the perfect thing to fuck up a whole bunch of fancy rich folks cars parked on the side of the curb.
Immagine the carnage and jacked up paint jobs with just one casual drive by that this thing could do to five kilometers of cars.
Just replace one of the brooms with a piece of chain on the end. Will gouge out a lotta windows and fenders.
The damage would be in the millions.
hahaha omg xD
That's so steam-punk China, nice work.
Normally I give China a hard time for their usual QUALITY and so on, but this is just so novel and hilarious I have to give them praise for it.
When I was in China I saw little old ladies on the side of the highway sweeping with brooms juts like those. So this is a step up.
I shouldn't have watched "Another" after all...
The Answer? Use a Broom. And if that don't work, Use More Broom.
I want that damn thing to take off & fly like a frisbee. If they can manage that then they will have redeemned themseleves!
innovation!
If I would be chinese inventor I would attach these brooms to the front bumper in / shape it would clean all dust without any mechanisms
This made me laugh harder than i have in a long time for some reason.
Come on, this is total cereal dude. Mah broom gonna make dat dirt clean!