09-07-2005, 01:47 AM
Galt Wrote:It's like the "well the buses would have weighed too much and we didn't have people with those licenses, so it would be illegal" as the reason why they didn't use the buses to evacuate people. I pray that wasn't the reason, and there was a real reason having to do with fuel or drivers or routes or something, because if it truly was "it would have been breaking the rules" then holy shit, that's just retarded.Dude, it's not a matter of illegal, it's a matter of fucking physics.
You've obviously watched the movie "Speed" too much, and think that if Sandra Bullock can do do it, then yes, a regular person can just take the driver's seat of a 20 foot long vehicle holding over 20 passengers and drive it at 55 miles per hour.
A person needs to undergo traning, and driving classes, which are very different from when you go your regular license. A driver needs to learn how to drive with 15,000 pounds of load. You think they wouldn't have deployed the buses if just anyone was able to drive one of these things, at maximum highway speed, for 6 hours in order to flee the city?
And, on top of that, even if there were that many qualified drivers, you think those are state employees?? They are private citizens, with families, who are not first responders; they all evecuated with the rest of the city before hand.