On Oct 22, 2:29 pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

I used the term "bus" rather loosely!

The vehicle does not have a simple, ordinary accelerator:
http://i37.tinypic.com/slisg4.jpg

There are even more complications, involving the difficulty of the
vehicles passing each other. That may be done only at certain places,
at certain precise times!

Forgive my cynicism on this, but accepting that this is the theoretical
case, in any real world scenario, it is just not going to be realistically
possible to fulfil such a case. If there is no one at a bus stop, the bus
will sail on by, gaining perhaps as much as a minute on it's journey. If a
stop that would normally be calculated to take 30 seconds to load from,
today has a pensioners' outing waiting, this could cause the bus to lose
several minutes at that stop.

There are basically no stops except at each end of the run. So, nobody
to wait for.

Just missing a light, having to wait behind a dustcart

There are no dustcarts because there are no houses for the entire run.

trying to get past a cyclist on a narrow street, pulling over for
an ambulance, waiting at a PeLiCon crossing -
the list of potential holdups is endless.

The "vehicles" have their own road that nobody else is allowed on, not
even pedestrians. The only possible delay is at the traffic lights,
where there is an unecessary 10 to 20 second delay. Every little time
saving helps.