I really hope you’re just trolling now...

That’s not how tires work. Lower profile tires are generally heavier due to the need for thicker sidewalls.

We’re talking about the Nurburgring; not an autocross course, lol.

YouTube Red and YouTube TV are awesome services that are well worth the monthly fee. I, like everyone else, was skeptical, but signed up when we moved into our new house and went Google Home and Chromecast crazy.

They’re like heated seats or winter tires. A lot of people are like “Who the fuck needs that shit?” And…

Yeah, the initial reports from the video they have make this sound not much different than when a dear suddenly leaps out from behind some bushes right in your face at night.

The high level is not worthless. You need to start somewhere. It’s difficult to get into the nitty-gritty of who was at fault for an accident if you don’t even have any video of what occurred.

I think he more meant it at the high level: there will be plenty of actual video, so we will know exactly what happened. Obviously determining who is at fault and all that stuff is a new grey area.

I’m sure someone was supervising. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a failure of the emergency brake system.

I genuinely do not understand the folks who didn’t jump off. While that must have been terrifying to be on, they also had PLENTY of time to see and understand what was happening. They were all looking back. They all could see the clusterfuck of death going on at the bottom. All they had to do was jump like 3 feet down…

And while we’re at it, fuck that old lady for whom we have to keep a 35 MPH speed limit. Just because that one lady sucks at driving, doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t be allowed to do 120!!!

#livinginasociety

I completely disagree with you. In fact, you provide an excellent comparison. City buses these days look modern, and streamlined compared to buses of old. Some even look downright futuristic. School buses haven’t evolved quite as much, but still have improved on their looks with integrated signal lights, raked and…

I don’t think it would be terribly difficult. This is pretty close to what you described, and it doesn’t even look too bad. It’s really just the headlights that are the biggest problem. And the bumper, which could probably be restyled to look better while still meeting all of the requirements (I’m NOT saying it needs…

That’s certainly part of it, but the LLV is also a MUCH cleaner, simpler design. All these modern replacement candidates look like they were styled by the guy who styled the new Civic Type-R. Just WAY too busy, and ugly as a result.

Look, I’m a huge proponent of “function over form,” but I’m also a huge proponent of not making vehicles that are expected to be long-lasting, and commonplace absolutely BUTT-UGLY.

The same thing happened with the Nissan NV-whatever replacement to the yellow cab. An opportunity to make a marked improvement in the…

I mean, the only time it would really be obstructing the driver’s vision is on straights... and even then only well before the corners. Once you even get near a corner, you are looking into the corner, if not past it. So for the vast majority of the time, it won’t be blocking your view anyway.

This isn’t about redundancy. Nothing failed improperly here. This was user error, and a vehicle operating as designed. I’m not sure what you’re wanting to see out of a multi-input valve. At the end of the day, you don’t want brakes to lock up just because you lose electrical power.

You don’t want the brakes to apply in the case of a power failure, though. Think about your personal car. If you lose all electrical power, do the brakes automatically apply? Absolutely not. That would be incredibly dangerous. The last thing you want for a bus is for the parking brake to suddenly apply itself,…

Transit buses don’t even have a “Park” mode for the transmission. They only have Forward, Neutral, and Reverse. So basically he left it in neutral and stepped off the bus. Big fail on the part of the operator.

You’re completely misunderstanding what happened here. That bus is no different than any other bus, and it works exactly in the way you described. In the event of a tank rupture, line rupture, pump failure, or any other failure that results in a loss of air pressure, the brakes would have engaged to bring the vehicle…

To be fair. They could have also jumped in the seat and just slammed on the REGULAR brakes!