I think the question the Internet would like to know is: A) Why was it recommended to you as a fire department? B) Does this mean you're about to start the fastest bus service in town? There will be a queue of Toddlers wishing to use it!
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
And now I feel bad for those times I was internally critical of how far the bus driver had stopped from the kerb. I'd never considered the overhang on a bus with where their wheels are positioned. To those drivers, I'm sorry, i turned out you actually being a very competent driver aware of your overhang.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Even as a car driver and motorbike rider of 25+ years I found this informative because it always answered questions I'd wondered about, one I remember wondering even as a kid! Thanks for this...
I did not search for this video, and I am likely to never drive a bus in my life, but I actually enjoyed every second of this somehow😂. It's amazing how much information I learnt from this video when I have zero use for it
Like others I randomly got shown this by youtube's algorithm. However, it is a great thing to watch for anyone that drives to see what bus drivers have to deal with and to demonstrate how you need to give them space. Also if possible not to park too near a bus stop. Doing it from the point of view of a car driver will never reinforce it enough that buses are hard to drive. As an aside, tail swing used to be a small problem on cars but for the vast majority these days the rear is not very far back from the rear wheels. When it was tail swing was something you would have had to deal with. Found out about it when I wondered about if it was a thing for cars.
Arriva employee: "Put the video on RUclips, no one come across it and we don't need to host the video on our own servers" RUclips algorithm: "Hold my beer..." Honestly though, did weirdly enjoy this 🤔
Um, no, only idiots who can't drive and should never have been given a license in the first place have experienced this. If you can't drive a vehicle with out smacking the back of it into things then you shouldn't be on the road.
Every time I pass a vehicle with rear wheel not at end of chassis I think tail swing. Even those box vans like Luton and supermarket deliveries have small tail swing.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Yes, and a stagecoach bus overhang run over me at a bus stop, hit the shelter and ran over my foot, the bus reversed and drove off, the next bus helped me. Police was the called and chased the bus with a damaged front... Stagecoach MD didnt care a 4x, driver was arrested and stagecoach sacked the driver. Stagecoach refused to repair tbe bus shelter, lamppost and signage, Council had pay for it and fix it,
And commuters. Because commuters in my country seems to love standing too close to kerb when bus is arriving, ignoring the nearside mirror collision risk.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
That should be no problem. Certain (European city) buses-with-overhang already have wheelbases of 6m, which means you could design a 6m-to-6.5m-ish bus with zero/(close-to-zero) overhang. Yeah, it ain't as long as a 12m one with overhang, but hey, no overhang _is_ possible.
@@roflmagister5 yah but a 6m bus is pretty much useless in any considerable population nucleus. It's much more efficient to have one good driver on a 12 or 18m bus than two or three less good drivers on two or three 6m buses
I don't know why RUclips recommended this to me, but it has reminded me of the time back in the 90s when a Midland Red bus driver misjudged the rear overhang and clipped the Travel West Midlands bus that was waiting to turn in the adjacent lane. Schoolkids covered in broken glass is never a good look for a bus company, but I'm not sure what the consequences were
part of the problem was councils getting rid of recessed bus stops as the moany operators claimed cars wouldn't let them pull out. Now buses just cause obstructions on the road, and continuously pull out when you are still going around them...i point you out FirstBus
The operators r not moaning dumbass car drivers are the problem and the bus is much bigger than a car so it needs more room and its actually dumb when cars go about busses so ur comment is dumb
2:30 ahh so that’s why there is a groove in the rear taillight assembly surround - to allow for overhanging tail swing when pulling away from railing handrails. That is some legit precision engineering shit right there.
Well maybe most of Arriva Derby need retraining as can guarantee alot scrape the overhangs at bus stops and there doesn't have to be an obstruction. No wonder the vehicles deteriorate and end up off the roads
@@graemekornicki6810 It's usually best to have the front marginally out as it opens up the field of vision to the n/s rear, vehicles that get close before swerving out to pass can be seen more easily.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Well, I say - that if there's a raised kerb at the bus stop, the driver should raise the bus fron its travelling height ;) I though the bus over the pavement was brilliant for reducing step height. It just loses the comedy factor of the driver with his hands on the old bag's arse pushing her up into the bus ;)
Actually, a retest would not be effective. The idea of the driver CPC was to provide periodic training. Unfortunately, many companies don' consider what will actually assist the company and drivers, but just consider it as a cost. I know of companies that have just got the drivers to repeat the same module 5 times, usually Customer Care which probably requires the least effort. Properly considered and constructed modules can include driving time and within the 5 year period should ideally have at least one "on road" module. The way forward is for at least 1 driving module to be made compulsory.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
@@freddieparrydrums Firstly, what is the relevance of her gender? I have trained many ladies and they certainly compare favourably with men. Secondly, anyone can make a mistake and as you don't even drive, what right have you got to criticise her skills. Finally, a simulator has got naff all to do with real driving. Speak with knowledge and skill, not sexist ego.
@@slap_A_flamingo They are, but traffic and passenger numbers are factored in too. If traffic is unusually light, it means you have more running time than usual and need to sit at a stop to wait time
I am from America, this is literally pointless yet so informational, yes I have watched the whole video. Yes for some reason I was paying attention the ENTIRE time.
"If you need to stop behind another bus, take care of the tail swing" ALTERNATIVE: DO NOT build a f***ing FENCE right at the curb of the sidewalk like lmao
The safety barrier is to discourage people from crossing there. As the UK is not exactly blessed with lots of space, the barrier has to be near the kerb, because we need the space on the pavement (as in sidewalk). If you put further in the pavement would no longer be wide enough for wheelchair users/prams etc.
@@fssim6825 It's just really weird phrasing. "The most dangerous parts of a plane flight are takeoff and landing" would make sense, but instead they essentially said "The most dangerous parts of takeoff and landing are takeoff and landing," which is rather redundant.
Saw a guy get smacked on the back with a bus mirror as he was walking on the pavement with his wife. Sent him flying a few metres, still landed on his feet though. Bus driver took a bit of an earful from him.
If the bus was equipped with drive cam footage (like most modern buses) and the driver managed to set the recording light off, then he would have been instantly sacked.
@@TheScholar1 Was a decent while ago now, roughly about 5-8 years ago. Dont know what the repercussions were for the driver, but he deserved to be sacked. If that was someone a bit smaller walking there he would have smacked them on the head, and the outcome would be a lot worse.
@@Son-Of-Gillean It's all that stress from awkward manoeuvres, lack of toilets and rude passengers that led me to find my way back to the world of office work. I'm a lot happier now!
It is only in the past 20 years or so that buses have had these projecting front mirrors. It is obvious to all (except the vehicle designers, obviously) that such projections are unacceptable and inviting problems. Similarly the rear overhang. I remember when London introduced long single-deck buses in 1968 the number of bus stops that were knocked down when buses pulled out sharply from the kerb. The fault lies in the design which, in more sensible times, would have been rejected or, more accurately, would never have seen the light of day. It seems we have learned nothing in recent years. In addition, the space needed for projecting mirrors reduces the number of vehicles that can be accomodated in the garages. Perhaps that is why so many buses are dumped in open yards these days..... What happened to commonsense?
Not a well considered view. Firstly, legislation demands that the N/S mirror is viewed through a cleared part of the screen. I can assure you that the blind spots from a mirror placed further back are much greater. The danger from driving a bus with a nearside mirror obscured by rain, dirt or misted interior glass cannot be over emphasised. Any good driver of a large vehicle relies on good rear and side vision. I speak as a bus driver of 45 years experience, commercial vehicle advanced driver, (test taken in an old manual double deck bus) and instructor of many years. I have driven buses with tiny round side mounted mirrors and all sizes up to the modern large front mounted options. Modern mirrors and position greatly enhance the rear view, the only downside being blind spots to the front.
"I can guarantee not one person searched for this. RUclips algorithm at its most random." Yes, but every single person who is here clicked on it, over multiple other videos. So you can't really blame the algorithm.
I wonder why those bus stops have fences... this is a built in danger zone... the less obstacles there are on a bus stop the less risks of accidents there is...
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Always a cause for discussion, however, no simple answer. Every bus must be wheelchair accessible. However, if a ramp fails on route the driver is permitted to finish the journey. Wheelchair spaces are limited, so if the bus has its legal maximum on board, no further wheelchairs can be loaded. If other passengers, with pushchairs for instance, are taking the space, the driver can ask them to move but has no powers to enforce it. Also, if you look at the legal lettering inside the bus, you will see different capacities. Seated, standing, wheelchairs and then as wheelchairs need more space, the variations when wheelchairs are on board. A driver can't ask a couple of able bodied passengers to leave the bus to enable a chair to board.
@@cap4983 Impossible. Capacities have already been reduced with various equality regulations. Shorter buses would mean lower capacities, needing more vehicles and drivers and greatly increased costs.
@@freddieparrydrums actually u don't bud but nice try and besides these are bus drivers they know exactly what they are doing and u say uf 13 ha I would love to see you drive a bus
I wish bus drivers in New York City know this. They will pull in and out of bus stops when on coming traffic is coming. Unsafe for Drivers and Cyclists who are overtaking the bus. Also if we want to fix the issue, we have to make at least 60 feet of space for 40 foot buses. This can be done by placing a stop at the corner or a street.
Buses are badly designed.. the front wheel should be in front of the main doors therefore easier to move out and in. Any ideas why its behind the door??
It's intentional. Otherwise it would put the driver behind the front wheels which make for very bad visibility as UK buses have flat faces. Also the entrance needs to be flat so people can board as the tyres are very large. Lorries get around this by adding steps to climb up. But that also makes it too high for old Doris lol
When on one bus can be up to 5 different routes, the buses have to be on time. Also buses run by time slots and the drivers have to be in a certain place within a time. This is hove congestion starts.
@@NextSound170 So how are people meant to catch the bus if they do not have a schedule? Not everyone lives in London where buses come every 10 minutes. There needs to be a timetable everyone adheres to.
Can I just say as a bus driver and previous controller, there is NO penalty for being late. Controllers rushing people is actually very rare. It's usually new drivers fall victim to this idea that they're being rushed because they get asked why they're late. Experienced drivers don't suffer with this.
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I can guarantee not one person searched for this.
RUclips algorithm at its most random.
And I just spent 7 minutes watching an informational film about a vehicle I’m never going to drive.
Yeah but I just learnt something which is rare for RUclips recommendations. Haha.
@@Poopsticle_256 time for bus simulator. 🤣
@@Poopsticle_256 yo be fair it might stop someone being crushed by a bus on the railings.
@@Poopsticle_256 same
RUclips recommended at its finest
There'll be another 2 along in a minute ;)
No one recommended this company their app is shite and ripping people off and their customer service is non existant
Every person who is watching this clicked on it instead of the other videos so they must be doing something right.
@@Maxime_K-G no i clicked to complain to add to the list they ignore
Alternative title: Why you shouldn't park in the bus zone
Happens too often in crowded UK cities sadly. Not enough traffic police any more.
I think the question the Internet would like to know is:
A) Why was it recommended to you as a fire department?
B) Does this mean you're about to start the fastest bus service in town? There will be a queue of Toddlers wishing to use it!
Why did I watch this when I’m not a bus driver?
umm yeah same...
@@rileyshangout3800 Hahahahah
i am a bus driver and i dont know why i watched this
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Because theres no more fuffly cats dancing videos.
Thanks youtube algorithm. I needed to know this !
This video came to me. Randomly.
Yes I watched it all.... for absolutely no reason at all
I watched this because I'm a bus Fanboy
And now I feel bad for those times I was internally critical of how far the bus driver had stopped from the kerb. I'd never considered the overhang on a bus with where their wheels are positioned. To those drivers, I'm sorry, i turned out you actually being a very competent driver aware of your overhang.
While I didn't search for this video, I enjoyed watching it as I learned something new about Buses.
The tail swing hadn't occurred to me.
Watch out for it next time you’re awaiting a bus
I thought this would be a video telling drivers how to be careful around buses, but now i'm apparently qualified to stop a bus at a stop.
true in 9 years when im 18
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
@@freddieparrydrums "woman bus driver" eh?
@@ericssmith2014 what's wrong
Even as a car driver and motorbike rider of 25+ years I found this informative because it always answered questions I'd wondered about, one I remember wondering even as a kid! Thanks for this...
At least a good nice video to recommend, thanks youtube 🙂
I did not search for this video, and I am likely to never drive a bus in my life, but I actually enjoyed every second of this somehow😂. It's amazing how much information I learnt from this video when I have zero use for it
Like others I randomly got shown this by youtube's algorithm. However, it is a great thing to watch for anyone that drives to see what bus drivers have to deal with and to demonstrate how you need to give them space. Also if possible not to park too near a bus stop.
Doing it from the point of view of a car driver will never reinforce it enough that buses are hard to drive.
As an aside, tail swing used to be a small problem on cars but for the vast majority these days the rear is not very far back from the rear wheels. When it was tail swing was something you would have had to deal with.
Found out about it when I wondered about if it was a thing for cars.
Arriva employee: "Put the video on RUclips, no one come across it and we don't need to host the video on our own servers"
RUclips algorithm: "Hold my beer..."
Honestly though, did weirdly enjoy this 🤔
i now know about over hang on a bus as youtube things i need to watch this.
Commenting from Japan. Thank you very much for sharing this valuable video with me.
Great video, Tail swing only sinks in after a collision has taken place and every driver has experienced this
Um, no, only idiots who can't drive and should never have been given a license in the first place have experienced this. If you can't drive a vehicle with out smacking the back of it into things then you shouldn't be on the road.
Every time I pass a vehicle with rear wheel not at end of chassis I think tail swing. Even those box vans like Luton and supermarket deliveries have small tail swing.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
@@johnrauner2515 the idiots that drive into others tail swing are the ones that shouldn’t have a licence. Guessing you’re one of them.
In my country if you park in a bus stop you get a big fine or towed
In Spain, drivers need to keep as calm as a capybara if someone is parked at the stops, or if they are blocking the road.
Thank you RUclips Algorithm, very cool!
Yes, and a stagecoach bus overhang run over me at a bus stop, hit the shelter and ran over my foot, the bus reversed and drove off, the next bus helped me. Police was the called and chased the bus with a damaged front... Stagecoach MD didnt care a 4x, driver was arrested and stagecoach sacked the driver. Stagecoach refused to repair tbe bus shelter, lamppost and signage, Council had pay for it and fix it,
Should be compulsory viewing for all car drivers and cyclists too.
And commuters. Because commuters in my country seems to love standing too close to kerb when bus is arriving, ignoring the nearside mirror collision risk.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Well I was on an Arriva bus yesterday and I don't use buses that often and to then have this video suggested the next day is odd.
Tommorw you be getting a covid video.
(1:41) "There are a number of options..." Yes, for one, you can design a bus with less frcking overhang.
Enjoy going round corners... oh wait, you won't be able to.
That should be no problem. Certain (European city) buses-with-overhang already have wheelbases of 6m, which means you could design a 6m-to-6.5m-ish bus with zero/(close-to-zero) overhang. Yeah, it ain't as long as a 12m one with overhang, but hey, no overhang _is_ possible.
@@roflmagister5 yah but a 6m bus is pretty much useless in any considerable population nucleus. It's much more efficient to have one good driver on a 12 or 18m bus than two or three less good drivers on two or three 6m buses
I don't know why RUclips recommended this to me, but it has reminded me of the time back in the 90s when a Midland Red bus driver misjudged the rear overhang and clipped the Travel West Midlands bus that was waiting to turn in the adjacent lane. Schoolkids covered in broken glass is never a good look for a bus company, but I'm not sure what the consequences were
part of the problem was councils getting rid of recessed bus stops as the moany operators claimed cars wouldn't let them pull out. Now buses just cause obstructions on the road, and continuously pull out when you are still going around them...i point you out FirstBus
The operators r not moaning dumbass car drivers are the problem and the bus is much bigger than a car so it needs more room and its actually dumb when cars go about busses so ur comment is dumb
Cars wouldn’t give way. So buses and the companies had to take way. Don’t like? Don’t drive.
It's 3 am, and I really need to get some sleep but I am watching this. What has my life come to?
But the RUclips algorithm guessed correctly that this exactly what I wanted to watch
Now that I've watched this, I just know I'm going to be seeing bus videos for weeks. Thanks youtube, you know me so well...
Ah yes the lovely RUclips algorithm
Good info that I will never use except in BeamNG.
2:30 ahh so that’s why there is a groove in the rear taillight assembly surround - to allow for overhanging tail swing when pulling away from railing handrails.
That is some legit precision engineering shit right there.
LOL - it looked so good, didn't it :)
In reality, it was dented and repainted :)
the people behind the bus be like WTF IS HE DOING
When you want to drive buses and RUclips is your best friend kkkk
wtf yt algortitham
I don't know why RUclips decided I needed to watch this.
Cause you ordered a cadbury double decker bar on Amazon.
This is basically how to drive a bus 101
Since when did the route 68 go past McDonald’s Kensington?
the offside front sidelight is out! Is it on the defect card? :D
WOW, I missed that !
I come across vehicles with the wrong relectors but I missed a sidelight out :(
Oh i live by the 68
ah yes, thanks for the tutorial, I'll make sure to drive my hundred thousand public bus safety!
I do drive a truck myself, but how did i get here?
6:34 Double yellows at a bus stop. This is know as the express customer transfer method where the bus doesn't quite stop ;)
Wait why am I watching this
Maybe I’d see this if my bus turned up which it doesn’t half the time
I ❤️ arriva and first
watching this video gives you 1000xp in City Bus Simulator
Now I know how to safely stop and depart from bus stops if I ever become a bus driver in North Yorkshire! THANKS RUclips!
de bous
Well maybe most of Arriva Derby need retraining as can guarantee alot scrape the overhangs at bus stops and there doesn't have to be an obstruction. No wonder the vehicles deteriorate and end up off the roads
Bus drivers take note pull the back end in when at a bus stop and not leave it stuck out obstructing drivers view who want to overtake safely.
The bus is usually there for less than a minute. Dont overtake if it's unsafe or you view is obstructed.
@@graemekornicki6810 It's usually best to have the front marginally out as it opens up the field of vision to the n/s rear, vehicles that get close before swerving out to pass can be seen more easily.
If they didn't do that would arriva make a training video haha
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Well, I say - that if there's a raised kerb at the bus stop, the driver should raise the bus fron its travelling height ;)
I though the bus over the pavement was brilliant for reducing step height. It just loses the comedy factor of the driver with his hands on the old bag's arse pushing her up into the bus ;)
😊
Every month 5-10 mirror arms get hit by the bus drivers.
It’s easy to wince when the driver clips the kerb until you do the same in your own car
It's general common sense and yet most bus drivers still can't get it right.
Trying to find a comment at the time it was published....
look like a B9TL cut into half
Thanks RUclips.
Is this driver on strike
Bus should be camera-equipped and the violator ticketed.
Thats green lane by new deli saka
Is right fella
wait why cant they just a little bit then
Why did I watch this?
I always thought the universal spelling was c-u-r-b, but apparently not...
You can curb a drivers habit of stopping too far from the kerb.
lol a video for anoraks
How to prevent this retest drivers every so often
Drivers of all large vehicles should have their training repeated at regular intervals.
Actually, a retest would not be effective. The idea of the driver CPC was to provide periodic training. Unfortunately, many companies don' consider what will actually assist the company and drivers, but just consider it as a cost. I know of companies that have just got the drivers to repeat the same module 5 times, usually Customer Care which probably requires the least effort. Properly considered and constructed modules can include driving time and within the 5 year period should ideally have at least one "on road" module. The way forward is for at least 1 driving module to be made compulsory.
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
@@freddieparrydrums Firstly, what is the relevance of her gender? I have trained many ladies and they certainly compare favourably with men. Secondly, anyone can make a mistake and as you don't even drive, what right have you got to criticise her skills. Finally, a simulator has got naff all to do with real driving. Speak with knowledge and skill, not sexist ego.
@@stevesales4263 I wasn’t being sexist, just said that specifying who it was. Simulators are very realistic thanks, go look up ETS2 or BeamNG.
If it's anything like Lothian buses. They'll be stopped at the bus stop for no apparant reason 😆
If it is fairly quiet, it is the best way to keep to time. Otherwise it could mean just poodling along the road upsetting other road users.
@@stevesales4263 I know they run to a timetable but surely the times are calculated on the distance and speed between stops.
@@slap_A_flamingo They are, but traffic and passenger numbers are factored in too. If traffic is unusually light, it means you have more running time than usual and need to sit at a stop to wait time
@@MegaPepsimax true. I remember growing up my dream was to be a bus driver 🙂 would be awesome.
@@slap_A_flamingo I'm a bus and coach driver, ask me anything if you wish
TIL....
I am from America, this is literally pointless yet so informational, yes I have watched the whole video. Yes for some reason I was paying attention the ENTIRE time.
Is this why they're alway late?!?
"If you need to stop behind another bus, take care of the tail swing"
ALTERNATIVE: DO NOT build a f***ing FENCE right at the curb of the sidewalk like lmao
The safety barrier is to discourage people from crossing there. As the UK is not exactly blessed with lots of space, the barrier has to be near the kerb, because we need the space on the pavement (as in sidewalk). If you put further in the pavement would no longer be wide enough for wheelchair users/prams etc.
@@ryanmitcham5522 The effect those railings have on me is that I end up walking on the road for a longer period of time :)
@@ryanmitcham5522 They also help to reduce a risk of vehicle driving into people on the pavement.
In singapore buses are not allowed to go pass or before the bus stop
Buses have a reverse gear, why not use it to make life easier?
When a plane takes off and lands the most dangerous part is the take off and landing process. Really?
Yes, it's not dangerous but less safe than the other parts of the flight
@@fssim6825 Whooooosh
@@annoyingbstard9407 lmao what was the joke lol I still don't get it
@@fssim6825 It's just really weird phrasing. "The most dangerous parts of a plane flight are takeoff and landing" would make sense, but instead they essentially said "The most dangerous parts of takeoff and landing are takeoff and landing," which is rather redundant.
The bus sine should of said bus stop not bus start
13 was late today was rather upset
Saw a guy get smacked on the back with a bus mirror as he was walking on the pavement with his wife. Sent him flying a few metres, still landed on his feet though.
Bus driver took a bit of an earful from him.
If the bus was equipped with drive cam footage (like most modern buses) and the driver managed to set the recording light off, then he would have been instantly sacked.
@@TheScholar1
Was a decent while ago now, roughly about 5-8 years ago.
Dont know what the repercussions were for the driver, but he deserved to be sacked. If that was someone a bit smaller walking there he would have smacked them on the head, and the outcome would be a lot worse.
@@Son-Of-Gillean It's all that stress from awkward manoeuvres, lack of toilets and rude passengers that led me to find my way back to the world of office work. I'm a lot happier now!
It is only in the past 20 years or so that buses have had these projecting front mirrors. It is obvious to all (except the vehicle designers, obviously) that such projections are unacceptable and inviting problems. Similarly the rear overhang. I remember when London introduced long single-deck buses in 1968 the number of bus stops that were knocked down when buses pulled out sharply from the kerb. The fault lies in the design which, in more sensible times, would have been rejected or, more accurately, would never have seen the light of day. It seems we have learned nothing in recent years.
In addition, the space needed for projecting mirrors reduces the number of vehicles that can be accomodated in the garages. Perhaps that is why so many buses are dumped in open yards these days.....
What happened to commonsense?
The newest buses in my city have a small camera mounted where the mirror would be
Most people designing the systems and buying the buses have never actually driven a bus before, that's why they stuff up so often.
"It is obvious to all" a tried and tested phrase that always proceeds some barking opinion or other.
Not a well considered view. Firstly, legislation demands that the N/S mirror is viewed through a cleared part of the screen. I can assure you that the blind spots from a mirror placed further back are much greater. The danger from driving a bus with a nearside mirror obscured by rain, dirt or misted interior glass cannot be over emphasised. Any good driver of a large vehicle relies on good rear and side vision. I speak as a bus driver of 45 years experience, commercial vehicle advanced driver, (test taken in an old manual double deck bus) and instructor of many years. I have driven buses with tiny round side mounted mirrors and all sizes up to the modern large front mounted options. Modern mirrors and position greatly enhance the rear view, the only downside being blind spots to the front.
"I can guarantee not one person searched for this.
RUclips algorithm at its most random."
Yes, but every single person who is here clicked on it, over multiple other videos. So you can't really blame the algorithm.
They buy shorter buses then problem solved
Or, following on from your "logic", have no busses at all.
@@z00h how do you expect people to get around who can't drive.
@@aaronchipperfield594 I expect you to google "sarcasm"
Have you ever heard of “demand”?
bored. had to bail. want to see crunching.
As a Briton bus ebthisiast, this is useful.
I wonder why those bus stops have fences... this is a built in danger zone... the less obstacles there are on a bus stop the less risks of accidents there is...
Better to hit a fence than a pedestrian...
Woman bus driver happened at bus stop near school... she managed to hit the mirror AND tailswing a fence! Now I’m 14 and could do a better job than her, after all I do it all the time in simulators
Er, no.
@@lexifillems It’s hard to believe but it happened right in front of my eyes
This is random and only applies to a few lol
Do they make training videos in how to ignore and refuse wheelchair users, also?
Always a cause for discussion, however, no simple answer. Every bus must be wheelchair accessible. However, if a ramp fails on route the driver is permitted to finish the journey. Wheelchair spaces are limited, so if the bus has its legal maximum on board, no further wheelchairs can be loaded. If other passengers, with pushchairs for instance, are taking the space, the driver can ask them to move but has no powers to enforce it. Also, if you look at the legal lettering inside the bus, you will see different capacities. Seated, standing, wheelchairs and then as wheelchairs need more space, the variations when wheelchairs are on board. A driver can't ask a couple of able bodied passengers to leave the bus to enable a chair to board.
@@stevesales4263:-) thank you. I took the test case on this to the Supreme Court.
Too me this seems obvious knowledge too someone who’s properly licensed to drive the vehicle in question!
No training is too obvious.
Drivers should learn how to drive the bus to start with. Half of them don't have a clue.
And u should teach them
I've never seen a public transit bus of that size without a set of mid mounted doors. Very odd.
Or go back to using shorter, double deck buses, with minimal overhangs!
Not always possible.
@@cap4983 Impossible. Capacities have already been reduced with various equality regulations. Shorter buses would mean lower capacities, needing more vehicles and drivers and greatly increased costs.
As arriva killed my mate by hitting him and stopping ontop of his body
Sad to hear that but I don’t think blaming the company is a whole is really right
Yeh but not every bus driver follow that come and see on leicester bus driver worst and. Careless
I feel like the drivers should know this when I am 13 and I do lol
You know nothing.
@@lexifillems Obnoxious prick
@@freddieparrydrums actually u don't bud but nice try and besides these are bus drivers they know exactly what they are doing and u say uf 13 ha I would love to see you drive a bus
@@jamesdukes1869 Alright I’ll show you then.
I wish bus drivers in New York City know this. They will pull in and out of bus stops when on coming traffic is coming. Unsafe for Drivers and Cyclists who are overtaking the bus.
Also if we want to fix the issue, we have to make at least 60 feet of space for 40 foot buses. This can be done by placing a stop at the corner or a street.
00:16 Wait, did this guy just compare landing or taking off a plane to a bus pulling in? I don’t think so 🤦
Buses are badly designed.. the front wheel should be in front of the main doors therefore easier to move out and in. Any ideas why its behind the door??
shorter wheelbases make for a shorter turn radius, better for cities and stuff. idk if thats why though, i know nothing about buses
Maybe the frontal overhang makes it easier for someone to get a pram or a wheelchair up into the bus because it can hang directly over the pavement.
Believe you would have to have a longer front if you put the wheel ahead of the door
It's intentional. Otherwise it would put the driver behind the front wheels which make for very bad visibility as UK buses have flat faces. Also the entrance needs to be flat so people can board as the tyres are very large. Lorries get around this by adding steps to climb up. But that also makes it too high for old Doris lol
@@Chris-vn2nf All buses in regular operation in the UK have to have a completely wheelchair accessible entrance and low floor by law
No one cares just actually turn up on time
Stop rushing drivers to be on time and accidents like this wouldn’t happen
When on one bus can be up to 5 different routes, the buses have to be on time. Also buses run by time slots and the drivers have to be in a certain place within a time. This is hove congestion starts.
@@EduardSLVRU We know this mate, buses aren’t a new phenomenon. Controllers always rush drivers which causes accidents
@@NextSound170 So how are people meant to catch the bus if they do not have a schedule? Not everyone lives in London where buses come every 10 minutes. There needs to be a timetable everyone adheres to.
Can I just say as a bus driver and previous controller, there is NO penalty for being late. Controllers rushing people is actually very rare. It's usually new drivers fall victim to this idea that they're being rushed because they get asked why they're late. Experienced drivers don't suffer with this.
It’s a comment - chill. Ffs 🤣🤣
why is that shown to me, plus everything is reversed…. confusing as hell