London Banter - View Single Post - These writhing whales of the road have swung their hefty rear ends round our corners for the final time.

Just zis Guy, you know? · July 29th 09, 09:01 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:55:02 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:

Of course, the greater length, articulation and the rear section's
self-steering system make it different, but those differences are

They don't self steer, they follow a curve. Simple geometry which even
cyclists could understand if they bothered to try. Also the cut in on
a bendy bus rear section going around a corner is a shed load less than
on an HGV.

Are you being rude and patronising just for effect? I used to park
36ft rigid trucks in a car storage yard, reversing down a lane with
less than 3ft either side and brand new unregistered Jaguars one side
and brand new unregistered Porsches the other. I am pretty good at
knowing the handling and manoeuvring characteristics of various
vehicles. You should watch some time the back end of a bendy bus when
the driver changes lanes: it swings in remarkably sharply, and because
the thing is so long your options for dealing with it are pretty much
limited to braking sharply. This is simply not the case for most
other vehicles. The usual method of controlling risk from overtaking
drivers, which is road position, simply doesn't work.

Guy
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