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Hey folks!
Welcome to Bus & Cable Car Simulator: San Francisco
And... welcome to
what passes for my apartment.
Yeah...
Pizza, liquor bottles and Doritos. Very nice.
Anyway, let's go outside.
This is the first ever game I've played - of course, a simulator - that you actually have to
drive
to be vehicle in question before you can actually use it
so like my truck and go
to the bus depot by Fisherman's Wharf.
So today we're gonna take a ride on the F Line
which is a
streetcar line operated by historical restored streetcars and runs from
Fisherman's Wharf to
the Castro via the Embarcadero and Market Street.
First thing I have to do is get my route for the day
from the supervisor
and then go back outside
drive over to where the street cars waiting for me at the loop.
And I've got some kind of funny texture business going on the windshield because
this is the most
buggy game I've played in a very long time
There, it's gone. Thank goodness
One of the most irritating things about this game is the fact that uh...
the traffic light sequences are so long
and everybody drives so slowly you can end up missing two or three light sequences
waiting for some slowpoke to get going.
I'll actually overtake
this line of cars
and burn through the lights as soon as they change.
this appears to be the vehicles top speed
I'll just take a quick shortcut through the parking lot
There we are! The streetcar is waiting for me.
Gonna hurry up and get on it because
I can go as soon as we're ready.
Run, you moron! There we go.
I have to run around to the end of the platform, it won't let me step up
Oh, I've missed the departure now. ***.
all right, well
We'll use this opportunity to take a quick look around streetcar then
uh...
MUNI which is the San Francisco transit authority
is unique in having these. These are
PCC Cars - Presidents' Conference Committee cars - and unlike almost every city that operated
PCCs, these have a cab at each end
so they don't have to be turned around using a loop
um... on the F Line in San Francisco they've
restored a lot
of these and painted them in different colors. This one's painted
in the colors of the Illinois Terminal Railway
they've also got a lot of cars donated from other
networks that were getting rid of them
and it's quite a cool thing you know, that you travel around San Francisco you
use public transport if you know what you're doing
because you don't want to try find a place to park in most of the city and
so you travel on all these lovely old restored streetcars
I'll just jump into the seat and
wait for the departure time
Okay, we're back
I've let the game run
while the time ticked away so it wouldn't get too boring
uh...
go back inside
I'll switch her on
and uh...
we'll just pull up and get the passengers
Alright now, this is your fare computer you just type in the fare
and away it goes
you can also greet the passengers by pushing various buttons
I don't know why the rest of them aren't getting on... oh God, he's stuck
And now it's going to say I've left them behind!
Yup, it's going to say I left these guys behind now, just watch
Arrrgh... stupid game
We'll look at the controls real quick. There's three pedals on this thing. The left pedal is
is the Dead Man's Pedal
the middle one's the brake
and the right one is the accelerator
you have to keep the Dead Man's depressed at all times in a real streetcar otherwise it assumes that
you're incapacitated
and puts the brakes on
that's a problem with this game is that uh... sometimes the passengers get stuck
trying to find their way onto the vehicle and if they don't do it
it just assumes that they never made it on and holds it against you for not stopping in
the right place but you know, the first guy got on fire I don't know what
Mr Tank Top's problem is. Anyway... let's go
Now, you see
on the left just to the side of my
wiper blade
there is a uh...
...gonna open the door, give them one last chance...
Nope... oh, here they come, they're coming
they're coming
PASSENGER: I would like a ticket ME: I bet you would
now you can respond to the passengers
nicely, neutrally or angrily
DRIVER: Hello!
while it might sound a bit sycophantic, it gets you the most points so I can't see a reason
to not do it
*coins dropping into fare box*
Oh, that ***'s just standing there, he's not actually coming. Okay that's fine
I was going to say: the red arrow... oh *** *rings streetcar bell*
I shouldn't have done that!
I was gonna say the red arrow
was telling me
that's for the cars and then the second signal you can see
up ahead with a single red light above the
one is currently green that's the transit signal that's for transit
vehicles like me specifically streetcars and that's the one that I follow, I don't follow
the normal traffic signals
for the normal traffic
See, it's just gone white, that's my cue to go
Oh my God
this is not going well
Don't know if you saw that, it changed. Just as it came into view, it changed
right um... while we're stopped
the um...
top-right
shows the map
the first time
is the time of
the stop that you just left
the next time to time which you're supposed to get to the next stop
and the one in yellow is the current time
so because I've just left the first stop it's showing the next
departure time for this route it's really confusing and it will make a lot more sense when
we get to the next stop so I don't know why I started saying this now
*groans*
there's a glowing yellow 'H' floating in the middle of the road that means
this is a stop as well
I'm going to stop right next to you, because you are hotness
yeah typical DRIVER: Hello!
now the clock is working like I wanted it to do so I could
explain it better
11:52 is the time I should have left the last stop
11:54 is the time I should get to the next one and the current time is 11:53
does that make sense? Good
uh...
I think it's $1.25 for a youth
DRIVER: Hello! ME: Hello!
*mocking driver* Good day!
PASSENGER: Good day DRIVER: Hello!
Okay, where's the transit signal?
Ahh! There it is!
Hidden! Behind the tree!
Good place to put it
behind a tree
if you ever see me do this really suddenly, it's because looking at the
fare computer resets the camera angle, so if you push it twice
it quickly looks at the thing but moves you back into a view where you can see what you're
doing again
at this point we get our own private right of way, right down the middle of the
Embarcadero all the way to the Ferry Building
which is pretty nice because it lets you make up for lost time, and you can go pretty
fast
And, considering we're just a tiny bit late
because of people who didn't want to get on the streetcar and then changed their minds
that's a good thing
Something else that I can do, I can also open and close the rear doors. You might not
be able to see them
but there they go, open
Oh, there's people getting off
you know you can pull the cord and tell me!
everybody's getting off
Maybe it's because I'm so rude and don't know what I'm doing? doing
Nice tribal tattoo
PASSENGER: I'd like a ticket DRIVER: Hello!
*radio playing* hope you don't mind, I switched the radio on. I find these videos can get a bit
boring sometimes for the driving bits so a bit of music
and I couldn't stop in time for that. It's all good
It's like it read my mind! Yes, I know I should!
okay fine
Medicare is a dollar
*radio playing*
*traffic report on radio*
Yes! All public transit running perfectly!
Come on! Change!
please
DRIVER: A good day to you! ME: Oooh! A good day to you! I'm a complete sycophant!
Rear doors!
Oh, he's going
To hell with them, I'm going. I've got a green light and I'm going!
I seem to have caught up with the previous one
considering he left about ten ten minutes before me he's not been doing too good
*radio playing*
on the left is the Ferry Building
So we're about to make our long sweeping turn around the
Embarcadero Fountain
and the square that's there
there's the fountain, you can
maybe see it
and then we're going to go down Market Street towards the Castro
PASSENGER: I would like a ticket ME: I bet you would, fucko
Going to take the opportunity just to
stretch my legs
can just see the fountain off in the distance
okay I've had to switch the radio off because I want
music not talk radio so we'll
try coming back to that later and see if they've finished being a bit boring
Just waiting for our departure time and there it is! Go!
*car honks horn* Same to you too!
this part is always lots and lots of fun
considered I turn up for work in a hoodie and torn jeans, I don't think my reputation is
important
this is always great, here we go
We made it! We made it, we made it
Not going to mess with this guy!
Have a ticket
yikes
And here we are on Market Street
I have never
in all the time I've had this game
and try to play this line, ever gotten to the end of Market Street without the game crashing
Or some
AI car getting stuck in front of me or some sort of stupid crap like that. Never
so we'll see if they we're lucky because I'm recording it
I'm not holding my breath
I grew up in toronto and you know, we have
the biggest streetcar network in North America
and
you tend not to drive on the tracks unless you need to, you know, unless you're
going to turn left and you're allowed to turn left then you don't drive on them
and if there's a platform
in the middle of the road like this
generally you're not even allowed to go through
some places you are
but uh... as you can see this
*** in the van is in the way
and there's no reason for him to be there when there's a perfectly good lane on his
right that it could be sitting in that i could be getting past him
takes forever to get down here
okay everybody's really friendly today that's fine
I'm okay with that, let's go
I have no idea where I'm supposed to be stopping here so I'm just gonna keep
going to the next signal because nobody's in my way
I can see the next transit signal from here so I'm going to go up to that
I mean, look at these cars, right
It's just nuts
this why he world tried to replace their
streetcars with trolley buses because they felt the trolley bus could work its way
through the traffic
Now, you!
guy in a different van
you're signaling left and right and left and right but left the right, but which way
are you turning?
Oh, I love it
not really
I hate it
I should just be breezing through all this stuff
you know i'm supposed to be at the next stop which is like
four blocks away by now
I've put the radio back on *radio plays*
*news report about protesters who bought stock to protest in a Wells Fargo stockholder meeting*
*in response to news report* I HAVE ONE SHARE IN PLANET KAJIGGER SO I GET A SAY! And I say everyone come back to my apartment and hug my cat!
game design at its absolute finest. Look at this, okay
we've got traffic lights here they're gonna stop us, in the middle of this
intersection. We've got all these vehicles on the left hand side that want to turn
and go down that road there, okay?
And...
you now have the streetcar line and the bus routes that come the other way down Market
Street caught up behind them not able to move; Cars trying to come off that road
on the left not able to move
it's just... ugh
all you've gotta do is when you're programming the world together you don't
put a, a...
a path for AI cars to go down this bit and it'd be fine
That on the left is a Peter Whitt car that was built for
the tram system in Milan, Italy
It's much
narrower than a North American streetcar
and it's also about twenty million times louder
Our hotel
where we stayed, I think it was the Radisson Fisherman's Wharf or something like that
back at the beginning of the route
And, as you saw
the line was right outside of it
so uh... those things would go rumbling past as soon as service on the F Line started
and I tell you what, if you've had too much Anchor Steam to drink that night you really
don't want to be having these things going past your window every five or ten minutes!
Whoa... there we go!
Oh my God, when we were in San Francisco down at the Embarcadero Fountain, about to take a
picture of the
Ferry Building
and there was a
cyclists rights protest or something going on
I'm pretty certain one of them was a naked hairy guy which I didn't need to see
but now that I've told you about that, I've shared my pain so my pain is lessened
and yours has massively increased
Let's go, come on, you're in my my *** lane so get a move on!
Keep going! Keep going! Keep going!
Whoa! Oh my god, that bus just disappeared into thin air!
You guys just see that? Oh jeez! Whew!
Keep going!
Don't stop!
Keep going, that's pretty good, thank you
still shouldn't be there
I'm sure I saw somebody standing at this stop
Ah yeah, he's standing there, he's not getting on
No? You're not coming with us? All right
What if I move up a bit? How about now? You coming?
THE LIGHT IS GREEN!
Move your vehicle
Something else they do in Toronto, where they can, is they set the platform for the
streetcar *after* the light
so if you want to turn left you can do it and you're not stopping
things from happening in the same way as this
move forward a bit
see if this putz wants to get on
There you go! You figured how your legs work, you put the left in front of the right
Yeah, Mmmhmm, that's right. Don't crash you son of a ***
Sorry for the quick jump in the music, I was just saving the video.
This game just loves to crash
and I don't want to lose all this progress
Oh, I just heard an accident!
hey! my stablemate has just arrived and he's trying to crush that guy in the SUV! Awesome!
Alright, let's go!
cruisin along nothing in my way
straight up to the next stop
*mocking driver* A good day to you! Ha ha!
May I polish your shoes with my tongue, sir?
Did you just see that grey 4x4 come around that corner and just swing its back wheel
around? I like that
Wish I could do that
Come on!
push the pedal on the right it will make you move faster
It's not as close as it seems from in here, it seems like
I'm eating his bumper from in here
considering how many people are waiting for me
I prefer to be at the end of the platforms so they don't get stuck on each
other and then it says YOU LEFT PASSENGERS BEHIND
traffic jam simulator
How many passengers have we got?
just one guy
let's go! move up!
Bit more! Come on!
you can do it
Well done, all right
All aboard!
*mocking* A good day to you! A-ha ha!
Ring-a-ding, baby! PASSENGER: HI! ME: HI!!!
Stop!
Turn it up turn it up!
I was already moving in the intersection
It's fine, I'm not breaking any laws
whoa, look at his trolley pole! It's going crazy!
Wah! What the ***?