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There's my friend the taxi driver.
See you can drive respectfully and with consideration for other road users. Well done.
Braking for the red light – excellent.
Oh spoke to soon looks like NOTHING has changed.
'People make mistakes; "I have a CLEAN licence and have been driving for 12 years"',Yeah
Class 40 D 213 " Andania " departs from Platform 5 at Chester General with the 11:15 Locomotive Services driver training LE move back to Crewe yesterday morning.
2011 Keystone Region, Studebaker Drivers Club meet, March 3-4-5. Lots of nice and interesting vehicles, so loads of pictures. York Fairgrounds, York, Pennsylvania.
Over 200 more pictures in my STUDEBAKER(set) at the right
Cicero, NY. March 2016.
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Cicero, NY. March 2016.
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A reboot of double decker coach on Day 5 of the new ManaBus.com express service to Auckland, the 2014 Volvo B11R snapped at the corner of Purcell St. and SH1 in Foxton on the some 10 hour run from Wellington to Auckland on Tuesday, 25 November 2014.
After a couple of years on Manabus.com express work, three of the ManaBus coaches have been moved to provide excellent hop on/off tours of Waiheke Island.
One is ManaBus No. 1 (Waiheke Explorer No. 301) which had a snafu on the island in Carsons Rd. on Saturday, 11 March 2017. The bus slid off the road when the driver pulled over to execute a turn.
The other ex ManBus Volvo B11R double deckers on the island are ManaBus No. 3 (Waiheke Explorer No. 302) and ManaBus No. 4 (Waiheke Explorer No. 303).
The double deckers are now repainted in a blue AOA livery and provide a hop on/hop off service for Fullers on the island.
DOUBLE-DECKER ON PRECIPICE
Gulf News, March 16, 2017
A double-decker bus which slipped off the edge of Carsons Road on Saturday [11 March 2017] could not have come closer to disaster.
About a dozen people were on board the Fullers Hop On Hop Off service when the driver pulled the bus to the left before making a right-hand turn into a driveway.
The left wheels of the bus slipped off the road-edge above a steep bank and the bus ended-up balanced precariously on its chassis.
Shaken passengers escaped by dropping down on to the bank via the front door before clambering up to safety.
The drama happened at a turnaround point outside Waiheke Airfield, about 250m past the entrance to Batch Vineyard, which the buses have used without incident since the service began.
Passengers walked to Batch Vineyard’s restaurant to recover. Operations manager Felix Bijl said they were “a bit startled” on arrival but soon recovered.
“After a few minutes they were more amused than shocked -some of them thought it was a bit of an adventure,” Mr Bijl said.
“We offered them the use of our shuttle to get back to their destination.
“The bus driver was very apologetic.”
Fullers was still investigating as Gulf News went to press but CEO Douglas Hudson said there was no evidence that days of heavy rain had made the road unsafe.
“Pending the outcome of the investigation it’s fair to say the bus has moved too far to the left,” Mr Hudson said.
Mr Hudson said the driver was offered counselling but had returned to work.
The company was reviewing its use of the turnaround area. A crane was hurriedly brought from Auckland to raise the bus back on to the road. The bus was undamaged.
Mr Hudson said the company took the incident very seriously. Services were suspended on the Carsons Road route for the rest of the weekend before resuming on Monday.
But local residents say the road is simply too narrow for double decker and coach buses and the service should cease or be replaced with smaller buses. Warren Eade, who lives on Musson Drive, says the buses are far too big for several roads on the island’s winery trail.
“I, my wife and my neighbours have all had close calls,” Mr Eade says. “They come around corners well over the centre line. I’ve had two near accidents where I’ve had to come to a complete stop and pull off the road almost into the bank.
“I’ve spoken to Fullers and their response is that it’s a popular route. But those buses are not suitable for these roads.” - Geoff Cumming
WAIHEKE LOCALS ANNOYED AT DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES
NZ Herald, Monday, March 13, 2017
Waiheke locals are being driven crazy by the introduction of double-decker buses on the island, saying the towering vehicles are dangerously clogging the roads.
Since the two-storey "hop on, hop off" buses were introduced on 10 December 2016, locals estimated about five have come off the road and others say it's difficult to safely share the road when passing.
Bus company Fullers, which owns the buses, says the vehicles are legally compliant and no longer or wider than other urban buses and coaches on Waiheke.
Concerned local man Alan Knight said much of the community's frustration came from feeling they had not been consulted before the buses were brought over.
The buses clogged up the roads and annoyed residents who called Waiheke their home year-round, he said.
"We understand there's got to be a tourism industry.
"But the double decker buses, the sudden introduction of them to the island with no consultation with the locals, has been a tipping point.
"Tipping point being the main word as they have tipped off the road into ditches on a number of occasions."
The roads were too small for the buses and it was only a matter of time before "someone has to go home in an ambulance", Knight said.
Waiheke local board chairman Paul Walden said a petition signed by more than 1000 locals had been handed to the board, which fully supported the campaign to get the buses removed.
"The buses are all over the roads because of the size of them. They're not just presenting a risk to themselves but to other road users when they're on a road where there's just not enough room for two vehicles."
It was "blatantly obvious" the buses were not fit for Waiheke's roads. Walden said he was concerned about what would happen with the heavy buses over winter, when the island's many dirt roads became wet and muddy.
The board had spoken to Fullers' chief executive Douglas Hudson about the buses.
"It's fair to say they need to be considering their relationship with the Waiheke community and whether this is in their best commercial interest to keep running their business given such widespread opposition in the community," Walden said.
Hudson said the buses were an environmentally friendly solution to the increasing number of Waiheke visitors who expected quality service.
Waiheke had become a top island destination and its transport should reflect that, he said.
"Initially, we will reduce the frequency of service over the winter, and are looking into some possible changes to the route to minimise and mitigate some of the concerns raised."
Hudson said a formal investigation was undertaken when buses crashed or went off the road and "any learnings are built into risk assessment procedures and training".
Auckland Transport (AT) is undertaking a review of the tour routes after concerns were raised by some residents.
AT spokesman Mark Hannan said the review's findings would be presented to the local board next week, but added recent wild weather would have some impact on the findings.
"If we find there is an issue we will report it to NZTA," Hannan said.
AT did not have the power to take legal vehicles off the road, he said.
Both First and Stagecoach are heavily advertising driver recruitment at present as the supply of willing driver recruits dries up.
There are a number of HGV and van delivery firms also vying for drivers with Pizza Hut offering £100 in cash to anyone who joins them.
69131 promotes driver vacancies on its Barbie patchwork panels. Note at £400 a week it is almost a £10,000 less a year than the last advert shown last time pre changes to terms and conditions.
Metrobus driver trainer 7209 (SN03 WLU) is seen heading along Reigate High Street.
High Street, Reigate, Surrey.
09/26/2015 A driver chatting at the Coney Island Hot Rod and Tattoo Show. Kodak Ektar 100. Contax G1. Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm 1:2.0.
The tramway has three main stations, a lower station named "Victoria" after the hotel that formerly occupied the station site, a middle one aptly named 'Halfway', and the Great Orme Summit station. Passengers must change trams at the Halfway station as upper and lower funicular sections are physically separate.
This driver was too impatient to wait for the police to open the intersection, so she drove into the crowd of 5,000 marchers.
An estimated 5,000 people turned out for the march to protest the Kinder Morgan pipeline, which will bring crude oil and refined petroleum from the oil sands in Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia, presumably to be shipped to China. This will increase tanker traffic in and is a danger to our already threatened marine life in the Inside Passage, where two recent spills in two months have already occurred this year. An estimated 5,000 protesters joined the march, from the City Hall to the downtown library.
City Hall, Vancouver, BC
Adam Driver speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
I have no idea what attacked the driver's seat of this delivery vehicle found at the abandoned nursery.
Adam Driver speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
7039 (Y739 TGH) is one of a pair of former London Central Volvo B7TL Plaxton Presidents transferred from Go South Coast to Brighton and Hove at the back end of 2016 for driver training duties, on which the former PVL239 is seen in Rottingdean this afternoon, 28th February, 2017. As was the case with their previous owner, the removal of the instructors seat means that they can be used for special events such as football if needed.
Cicero, NY. March 2016.
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Shooting from the drivers seat is largely underrated. I wouldn't recommend doing it in the city, but when you are driving from Las Vegas through Utah to Gran Canyon North Rim and back in one day you don't have the time to stop everywhere ......
This lovely stretch of road is somewhere on highway 89 in Utah or even Arizona. View large on black.
Google’s Sebastian Thrun would like to put an end to humans driving cars on public roadways.
Instead, the car just drives itself, day and night. Some lucky Google engineers are chauffeured to work each day around Silicon Valley in these cars, crossing bridges, toll booths and pedestrian crosswalks.
Here are photos and video of my high speed ride in a Google robocar — the ultimate driving machine.
Quotes from Thrun’s TED Talk, which just went live:
“We have driven 140,000 miles and people didn’t even notice.”
“Driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people, and almost all of those are due to human error, not machine error, that could be definitely be prevented by machine.”
“We could change the capacity of highways by a factor or 2 or 3 if we didn’t rely on human precision to stay in the lanes, but on robotic precision… and do away with all traffic jams on highways.”
“You spend an average of 52 minutes per day in traffic wasting your time on your daily commute. There are 4 billion hours wasted in this country alone, and 2.4B gallons of gasoline wasted.”
“I am looking forward to a time when generations after look back at us and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.”
Me, Phil Edye, and Robert Mitchell, proudly stand before one of the few Holdens loaned by the local Hornsby Holden Dealership, for our two week Driver Education Course.
We were going to be tracked by Dr. Ian Henderson?? of the UNSW driver safety unit for years. I'm still alive, with an accident free record, apart from one little dingle from a spin-out on the Jenolan dirt road on a later caving trip in Mum's Standard.
www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4654064075/ and a clean police record!!
We were taught there are no such things as "accidents"..
Always be in the right gear at the right place at the right speed at the right time! RMLAID
See also "Car Driving as an Art" by SCH Davis of the Autocar. and
"Roadcraft" The Police Drivers' Manual" by HM stationary Office
both presented to me by Eric T. Izard for "Highest marks for Driver Education Theory"
I must not have been as good at the practical, they didn't teach fast driving on winding mountain dirt roads to Jenolan Caves!!
Then I got a Beetle and learnt all about oversteer on gravel roads, on many caving trips around NSW and WA.
An article I cut out from the Canberra Times of 6-3-85
Driving Tip of the Week
A defensive driver is one who drives in a manner to prevent accidents, regardless of other drivers' faulty driving or non-compliance with traffic laws; one who is careful not to commit any driving errors himself and makes makes allowances for the lack of skill or judgement, or for an improper attitude on the part of another driver, one that does not allow hazards of weather, road conditions, absence of signs or signals to involve him in a collision or dangerous situation.
A defensive driver is prepared for the unexpected at intersections, from parked cars, where reversing, sudden stops by others or darting pedestrians. He is not caught in that last-second futile attempt to avoid an accident. He has a plan for his own and others' safety. This plan involves the ever-changing situations faced on the road.
He learns to overcome personal inadequacies and those of the vehicle. He studies the environment for hazards that cannot be eliminated, but which must be compensated for.
A defensive driver can arrive at a destination having experienced the minimum number of incidents.
Paul Glover, Motoring Writer in the Canberra Times
also wrote an article titled....
"No such thing as an accident"
Is there such a thing as a road accident?
Not a crash, or a collision, or an impact, or a head-on, but a genuine accident. An incident, perhaps fatal, which qualifies as a pure accident.
The sort of event where no-one is really to blame, and where fate or luck or whatever is the only explanation for a crazy out-of-kilter happening....
He goes on to explain why the road safety experts don't think so....
I wish the the press and NRMA would stop calling them accidents...