Agreed, really annoying. I’ve been trying to make YouTube videos of MS2020 but I always end up deleting footage because I nearly hit a truck on touchdown or take-off which just YEETs across the runway. Even though I have permission to land.
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Perhaps some dev with humour?
Permission to take off given, and 3 cars and a bus quickly drive onto the runway to block your way. LOL
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OMG. Seems totally ridicoulous
At max settings, the vehicle traffic treats every airport as if its JFK International… even if you are flying into a light-aircraft aerodrome.
Although this won’t change the vehicle behaviour, it is worthwhile turning down the setting for airport vehicles, for both realism and your fps. A win/win.
I swear this is deliberate, like they are spawning just outside your cone of vision, and come swooping in. No matter which direction you are headed, just out of shot a vehicle will come swooping in.
The other day I had a race with a fuel truck. I was turning left onto another taxiway, and from my right the truck comes in. I push the throttle forward, and the truck did the same, and shot in front of me. Madness! 
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I really laughed big, seriously. Thanx
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I think it is not only deliberate but also organised, well-coded and not a bug. 
If you look closely at my pic, there is a follow-me car in front of the bus. It came on the runway first. The bus and then three cars (one car drove into the back of the bus) tailed on. That means ground traffic gets a follow-me car but we pilots do not. 
The follow-me car drove through me first, the cars then drove through the bus and me, and finally the bus flattened me. It could at least have pushed me into the river next to the airport. That could then be called immersion.
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100% 
When you see a bus getting onto the runway and driving down while it’s a dead end for ground vehicles, you know that some guy is doing that on purpose 
I hope Asobo devs know that ground vehicles need Tower authorisation to get on taxiways and cross runways.
At least you have buses and cars… I bought only the basic version. so have to contend with horse-drawn carts…
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I also love it when you pull up to your parking spot, and one of the ground crew scurries over to stand at the exact spot the marshaller is trying to lead you to. Or you get pushback, and the second you get your taxi clearance, ground crew of vehicle decides to come park right in front of you.
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Funny situation in Kathmandu. (using a freeware scenery)
There is a rogue set of air stairs near gate 6 that VERY SLOWLY makes its way towards the runway and ends up stopping right on the runway edge and parks there - presumably planespotting…
It’s funny to watch but also annoying that the programming that controls the vehicles hasn’t been figured out yet.
At the very least, if vehicles can’t stay in their corridors, then they should be able to identify an aircraft taxiing near them and either hold position OR move over to the edge of a taxiway and GIVE WAY in all instances.
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Ground vehicles should be removed from all movement areas (area outside a single hold bar or a zippered roadway marking). Funny not funny story, one of my employees IRL got a 10 day unpaid vacation and the company was fined $2k for an accidental movement area violation of less than 50ft. Ground vehicles are good, but Asobo should really tone them down and relegate them to the non-movement ramp areas.
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Also maybe turn down the AI that seems to make them home in on your position. I’m taxiing along minding my own business when all of a sudden a bus that was off to one side just decides it absolutely must line up with me on the taxiway ahead.
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And also airplanes who disturber
This one decided to park in the middle of the taxiway. I waited about five minutes before running over him. As we were about to hit, the “driver” tried to floor it in reverse. My wing cut the top off it.
I’ve seen this so many times now that I believe this is a deliberate attempt by the AI to create a sense of life, so that vehicles are spawned in your vicinity. Too many times now I’ve seen vehicles making a beeline for me, either cutting me off, or falling in line in front of me.
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One thing that really annoys me is being on an airport, with lots of stationary aircraft, but nothing on taxiways, exept for a lot of airport ground vehicles.
It’s really annoying, there is always some airport service vehicle using the same taxiway I’m supposed to use, and no other aircrafts moving around in the airport.
Does anyone know how to get around with this?
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I believe there is a setting for airport traffic density that may affect the amount of vehicles that are around…
On the other hand, every time I land and see a big bus out there, I know it will track me down and get in my way…haha. Even better, last week I was parked in the longitude, going through start up and the cockpit started flickering and stuff and parts of the cockpit were messed up…Went to the external view and an airport truck had pulled up and through me and then stopped, right in the middle of my plane…It looked like a truck with wings…lol
At this point I ignore non-aircraft traffic at airports. I just taxi through all of the cars and buses.
I imagine in real life ATC would be screaming at some of these service vehicles.