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Electrification will cut the exhaust stench down a lot, but it won't stop the lurching or the overheating in winter, both of which reliably make me nauseated.

• loser777 9y ago
  That depends on what the source of the lurching is---if you live in an area where surface street road quality is rough (e.g., Seattle), then it won't help much. But electrification can mean the bus will use a fixed gear instead of a rough-shifting transmission.
• reaperducer 9y ago
  > overheating in winter Fun story: The double-decker buses in Las Vegas overheat in the summer. You wouldn't think that a desert city where it's 100°-120°F for months on end would have buses that overheat. The problem is that the double-decker buses are sourced from a company in Britain, which has a very different definition of "hot" than Nevada. If you ever go on vacation to Vegas and see one of the double-decker buses driving down the Strip with its back engine cover wide open, it's the driver trying to keep the bus from overheating. There was an article in one of the Vegas newspapers about it. The official policy is to simply let the buses overheat and go out of service. The bus drivers get in trouble for cooling their engines that way. Vegas also has level four self-driving buses, as mentioned in the article. The first one got backed into by a truck within minutes of being deployed.