PLUSES
• Looks good, with great vision
• Light tare weight
• Drives and handles well
MINUSES
• Early days on Australian roads
• Accelerator pedal too far back
• Air bag problem on test drive
The Optare Tempo is a high-tech bus with advanced electronics options, including as many smart cameras as you want.
And that’s just as well for Joe Oliveri, who loves bus cameras. The more the merrier as far as Joe is concerned.
That’s because as well as providing security, cameras have vindicated his Interline Bus Services drivers many times after dingles with motorists who possess good imaginations.
“People say, ‘Your driver smashed into us’, and we go, ‘Nuh uh, no, we’ve got CCTV footage showing that you’re the one that smashed into us,” Joe says.…