On Public Transport – Braking

Do you know those nice buses / trams that have the fancy automated gearbox for silky smooth acceleration? You know how good these actually are, when the driver puts his foot down and it doesn’t jerk, it just goes faster and faster, smoothly… until the same driver floors it, the brake pedal, that is. And than you get to know very intimately the person next to you. And than the foot moves again to the gas pedal and it’s so nice and smooth and you say to the person into you just crashed into how sorry you are for… everything and than bam, the driver slams the brakes and reaches for the hand brake to make a rally style turn and on and on.

I can see the social part of this, after all you get to know a lot of people better than you wished to, but I wonder, if they can make these buses accelerate silky smooth why don’t they do something about the braking?

That’s a good example of having the best equipment for providing a great service and ruining it, the service that is.