![]() 04/27/2017 at 23:17 • Filed to: Canadalopnik, Public Transit, The TTC sucks OC Transpo for the win | ![]() | ![]() |
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“The Toronto Transit Commission is grounding its entire fleet of articulated buses after maintenance staff experienced a “full throttle,” or unexpected acceleration, during routine maintenance Thursday afternoon.”
Did they check the floormats? Although apparently it can be dealt with through a software fix.
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![]() 04/27/2017 at 23:20 |
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Unpredictable bouts of full throttle with little regard for safety is pretty much the bus driver motto.
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And yet they were still holding up traffic.
![]() 04/27/2017 at 23:32 |
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Revenge of the Bendy Bus.
![]() 04/28/2017 at 00:17 |
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when has unintended acceleration actually been a problem of the automaker
![]() 04/28/2017 at 00:38 |
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Those things look so awful to drive. I’m always impressed when I see a driver who really knows what they’re doing with them.
![]() 04/28/2017 at 00:39 |
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The real fun is riding in one in the snow and having the rear slip sideways while the front stays on course.
![]() 04/28/2017 at 00:46 |
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I’ve yet to ride in one in snow, but I’ve spent lots of time behind them trying and failing to get up snowy hills
![]() 04/28/2017 at 08:01 |
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Weird... I’ve never once had a TTC bus accelerate when I didn’t want it to.
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On another TTC bus related note, WHY the hell aren’t they all pure electric yet? None of this stupid hybrid crap that’s constantly going wrong. A bus is the perfect electric vehicle. Drive around the city for an hour or so, wait at the station. Repeat. I know at Kipling station they sit for at least 10-15 minutes... with the amount of batteries a bus could carry that’s more than enough for quick-charging. Or battery swaps... which personally I think would be ideal.
![]() 04/28/2017 at 08:03 |
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And a bonus, because of Ontario’s “Yeild to the bus” law, all the carnage they may has caused with this issue would be the fault of the guy who got hit!
I just wanna burn the MTO to the ground. It’s a shitshow.