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Post by IainS on Mar 3, 2018 20:43:55 GMT
Not sure why people are praising her. She was driving too fast for the conditions and had a lucky escape. Problem with dashcams is that the short focal length, wide angle, lens exaggerates distance. She'd a lot less distance to react in than it looks in the video. |
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Post by IainS on Mar 3, 2018 20:55:30 GMT
Serious question. She swerved to miss the car, could the bus of also become out of control due to that? Yes. All this stuff about 'skilled driving in winter conditions' is bollocks. I managed to wipe out every single fucking cone on the Nurmijรคrvi airfield training ground when the ABS was switched back on. ABS is a fake load of old bollocks - you go bump-bump-bump, yes, but you still slide forwards and drive over everything. There is no time for fancy manouevres - give yourself all the time in the world by slowing down and even stopping. Oh yeah, and don't drive on snow with Summer tyres. How hard can it be? The bus does lose the back end, but gets collected fairly competently. Cadence braking still beats ABS. She steered out of the problem: keeping a foot on the brake would have wiped out the car. Not many bus drivers change the tyres before going out on a run. (Unless you meant the car, in which case I agree, but haven't lashed out ยฃ600 odd for a set for mine) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2018 21:06:36 GMT
I bet Michelle could manage a bus OK. 4 world rally championship round wins. 2nd overall 1982 rally world drivers championship. Winner 1985 pikes peak hill climb. Winner 1986 German national rally championship. Founder of Race of Champions (in memory of the late, great Henri Toivonen) Pretty quick for a girl  |
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Post by thebfg on Mar 3, 2018 23:18:35 GMT
I bet Michelle could manage a bus OK. 4 world rally championship round wins. 2nd overall 1982 rally world drivers championship. Winner 1985 pikes peak hill climb. Winner 1986 German national rally championship. Founder of Race of Champions (in memory of the late, great Henri Toivonen) Pretty quick for a girl That German Sabrine smidz or something was pretty handy in a transit around the Nuremburg ring. Overtook everyone else. |
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Post by JohnV on Mar 4, 2018 0:11:48 GMT
Sabine Schmidt
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 4, 2018 10:09:55 GMT
The above post was predictable and monotonous.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 4, 2018 10:27:03 GMT
The above post was predictable and monotonous. but very informative  and different from the normal quiet discussions  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 12:29:46 GMT
I fit our winter tyres by the middle of November, they are great in <7ยฐ and the wet, they come into there own in the snow, they offer only a small advantage on ice - studs are needed for that as Foxy points out.
They come off end of March. They are less good >7ยฐ - they definitely don't like being leaned on in temperatures in double figures.
One set has done five winters on the Skoda 4X4 and are down to 4mm in about 23000 miles. I will probably run them winter of 2018/19 then bin them off regardless of tread depth.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 13:58:29 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Mar 7, 2018 14:48:43 GMT
Thank you John. I wasent far out |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 16:45:04 GMT
Before we jump to conclusions that she's a fabulous mechanic. perhaps we should hear from the bus drivers at her depot, eh? As you so often say, "where's the evidence?" She pointed the torch in the right direction, thats a start!! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 16:54:13 GMT
Before we jump to conclusions that she's a fabulous mechanic. perhaps we should hear from the bus drivers at her depot, eh? As you so often say, "where's the evidence?" I don't know if sh is any good or not, nor do I claim she is any good, somebody must do though for her to have won an award. I merely posted it because it fitted the thread nicely. That said I know of no reason why she couldn't be as equally good as her male colleagues, just the same as the female bus driver in the OP. |
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Post by Andyberg on Mar 7, 2018 17:00:35 GMT
Before we jump to conclusions that she's a fabulous mechanic. perhaps we should hear from the bus drivers at her depot, eh? As you so often say, "where's the evidence?" I don't know if sh is any good or not, nor do I claim she is any good, somebody must do though for her to have won an award. I merely posted it because it fitted the thread nicely. That said I know of no reason why she couldn't be as equally good as her male colleagues, just the same as the female bus driver in the OP. I had a young lady as an apprentice a few years back, she was every bit as good as any male network engineer I've met! Also the local Porsche independent garage is run by a lady mechanic, very very highly regarded in the Porsche world and she rides a Ducati Penegale very very rapidly too!! porsche-repair-service.co.uk/Only cavemen like Foxy still believe women are only any good at cooking and cleaning!!๐ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 17:34:53 GMT
That said I know of no reason why she couldn't be as equally good as her male colleagues, just the same as the female bus driver in the OP. Ah, yes, the one who was driving too fast for the conditions... So you say, how fast was she travelling please? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 17:39:45 GMT
From the comments under the video.
What appauling (sic) comments from arrogant people who have no doubt never driven anything bigger than a car. As a bus driver with over thirty years experience, I would say what this lady driver did was textbook. It goes against every instinct to take you foot off the brake when you go into a skid but that is exactly what this driver did, then steering into the skid she regained control and avoided a potentially fatal accident. 10 out of 10.๏ปฟ
To me she was clearly travelling slow enough to pull up before she would have run into anything stationary and in front of her within her frontal field of vision. What actually happened is that the idiot in the Mini pulled across into her safe braking distance space, that was not her fault it was the fault of the Mini driver and any collision would have been their fault not hers.
You could (possibly) blame her if the mini had been parked there and she had to swerve violently to avoid it due to lack of anticipation but the simple fact is it wasnt, it drove into that side when immediately prior to doing that her side of the road was clear.
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