Every week in the United States we have bus accidents and many people are injured. If your take Google News Alerts for ?Bus Accidents? you will see what I mean. Often people are killed and occasionally many people die. Many times this is due to adverse conditions such as heavy traffic, severe weather or dangerous conditions. You would think a bus driver would be trained for such, yet we all know that conditions change rapidly often and a bus driver on a route he is familiar with may take for granted his driving methods as standard operating procedures, literally taking the changes for granted.

The best way to over come this is to use VR or Virtual Reality Simulators to give the ddriver a taste of worst-case scenario that they may some day experience. For instance ?black ice? no matter that they will be driving in South Texas where they never have black ice or practicing in heavy traffic during a Hurricane Evacuation when the thunderstorm cells whip on shore. We train airline pilots this way and even truck drivers now. For instance an airliner fully loaded will take off, one engine will go out, then they will take out two-hydraulic systems and put smoke in the cockpit with faulty warning lights blinking or not working and they will do this all in near zero-zero conditions. The rule of thumb, ?fly the airplane first? keep up your airspeed and control and rapidly work thru the emergencies in the order of most important. Not as easy as it sounds, when you have a full load of people and you are under a high stress situation. But this type of training is how we maintain our incredible level of safety in airliners. NASA puts the Space Shuttle Pilots thru the same tessts.