(15 May 2014, 7:27 pm)aureolin wrote Do buses have extremely sensitive brakes? Or do quite a handful of drivers have poor judgement?

I think it's the latter

Although, when the Head of Humanities at my school was undergoing her PCV training about fifteen years ago with a Tyneside Independant and for fun they let her have a driver of a Decker, and she did it down a long test road.
She described it as harder than trying to land a plane on a runway.