hmmm...I wonder if Metro has been leaning on their drivers to keep to the schedule. I've encountered a couple of psycho bus drivers lately who drive like madmen/women down Denny.
Had the same thing happen on a 21 express about 3 weeks ago - everyone was upset at the driver, who seemed to be driving aggressively. The driver insisted that it is a known problem within Metro with the suspensions on one of the brands of buses (Gillig?).
A slight jerk of the wheel causes a sway and then the intensity slowly builds if the driver does not decelerate -- not exactly newsworthy unless it tips IMO.
Is this self-feeding "flutter" the same concept of aeroelasticity that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
Anyone with a knowledge of physics care to provide some insight here?
Of course, if Dominic or, God forbid, Erica had been on that bus we would have had a 20-paragraph, first-person Slog diatribe about the horror. Since it happened to somebody else...
@9: Really? Cause I think this has happened to most people who ride the bus on a regular basis, so I kind of think it probably *has* happened to both Domenic and Erica.
Is this self-feeding "flutter" the same concept of aeroelasticity that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
Anyone with a knowledge of physics care to provide some insight here?