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now that's creative thinking.
A most interesting video, thanks for posting. The specialized machinery and construction methods are very impressive. Although the machine rides on rubber tires, it appears the bridge is being built for a railway.
I believe the bridge construction in video is east of Chongqing, for new high-speed rail line.
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Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what one of those bridge sections weighs? I wonder how the supports were put in place.
This is a great idea.
Dangerous job looking at the people working.
The part which frightens me is the video game steering wheel seen in the video later on. If they go so cheap there, where else have corners been cut. My experience with the Chinese first hand is they have an attitude of "Good Enough" to get the job done with no consideration to the long term or short term impacts and risks.
Regarding the "video game steering wheel" it's not like they're trying to steer an old dump truck here. The wheel is turning a potentiometer or Hall-effect device. It is plenty strong for the purpose.
There's a lot more to running a large piece of industrial equipment than that. What of fail safes? Video game controllers are not designed to run industrial equipment like that. Fine if you fail driving Forza 6, you wreck the car and play again. Not so much with a piece of equipment like that.
The same could be said for today's automobiles with drive by wire, but the US Government would not allow a video game steering wheel to be used in one for a whole plethora of reasons. You also won't see any piece of US industrial equipment with a video game controller running it either, for many of the same reasons.
