TennoChinko wrote:[
For a country that is packed with mountainous roads, and boasts exacting standards of technology ... even though driver error is a factor, why wouldn't the regulators at the MLIT 国交省 demanded transmission retarders "リターダ" for those type of buses? (I don't know whether it would be impractical to do so, or someone is just being retarded...)
You mean engine braking switch ?
Aren't these stuff standard on anything diesel ?
Even a D:5 di-d have auto fuel cut off and use engine compression braking...