py_megapixel
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On older Enviros, the bell that sounds when the stop button is pressed is just a simple "ping". The "Bus Stopping" sign and the corresponding light on the driver's dashboard become illuminated if they weren't already, and this is of course cancelled when the driver presses the door open button at a stop.
On the MMCs, the stopping sign and light behave the same. However, the bell is different, and seems to have some strange logic behind it: it's "ding, ding" in the driver's cab, then "ding, ding" in the passenger compartment. This effectively means that where there was one short ring before, there are now four longer ones. Unless the stopping sign was already on - in which case it only sounds in the cab and not the passenger compartment.
What's the point of this system? I've never known a driver not stop because they didn't hear the bell (they do after all have the other ways to know that a stop is requested, and the bell tends to reasonably loud in the cab anyway!), so it seems somewhat over-complicated to me!
On the MMCs, the stopping sign and light behave the same. However, the bell is different, and seems to have some strange logic behind it: it's "ding, ding" in the driver's cab, then "ding, ding" in the passenger compartment. This effectively means that where there was one short ring before, there are now four longer ones. Unless the stopping sign was already on - in which case it only sounds in the cab and not the passenger compartment.
What's the point of this system? I've never known a driver not stop because they didn't hear the bell (they do after all have the other ways to know that a stop is requested, and the bell tends to reasonably loud in the cab anyway!), so it seems somewhat over-complicated to me!