Why Do School Buses Still Look The Same?
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2020
- On the outside, school buses haven't changed much in almost 100 years, and there's a reason for that. A 1939 conference determined the yellow color, black text, and boxy shape that have come to symbolize the iconic childhood transport. Buses have changed a lot on the inside since the conference and they continue to be the safest way to get to school - about 70 times safer than a car, according to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Why Do School Buses Still Look The Same?
Well education here in the US hasn't changed either. It's still shit.
Edit: guys, thanks for the likes. However theres this one commenter who keeps harassing and bullying me and RUclips won't do shit about it. Please speak up with me. Name: ATCkeepsUsafe
At least the United States has a decent education system.
@@TheLiamster no, it's less than decent
Ahah so true. So why change the buses😅
Aha
C'mon man. You haven't seen what it's like in India. It spares no one.
Sometimes at night i lie awake thinking “why do school buses still look the same?”
sometimes at night i lie awake thinking "why haven't i bought one yet, would make an amazing camping vehicle"
These are the questions that keep me up at night
That is one of the mystery of humanity that we need to solve asap!
@@roan1678 the ones that kept Aristotele and Platone awake for years at nights.
Aristotle...
Humans: why do school buses still look the same ?
School buses: why do humans still look the same ?
And school buses in other countries? They look like the 1990s happened.
Humans only look partial the same, just millions of humans are fatter, yes even school children are fatter
That’s racist
Two shay
@@Tybeef No, three shay.
Narrator: "Some busses don't even have seatbelts."
Me: "Wait, some do?"
Sad reality of the 3rd world US of A.
All school buses I've been in have all had seat belts. Except for the suburbans, the seat belts are pretty much never used.
There's a *REASON* school buses don't have seat belts! FAA requires airlines to be able to completely evacuate a fully loaded aircraft, regardless of size and capacity, in 90 seconds. School buses also need to be able to evacuate very quickly in an emergency and no driver is going to be able to unbuckle several dozen Kindergartners and get them out quickly. The state of Kentucky in the past had at least 2 school bus crashes resulting in numerous fatalities due to the inability to evacuate quickly.
@@paname514 Stop with your pathetic "oh, the US is so bad" talk..
@@sethjansson5652 Dude I've been on both European and American school buses I know what I'm talking about. Modern comfortable buses vs crap antiquated buses
That one kid who could open and close all the windows in the bus
They are too strong to be from this world.
Doctors hate him!!!
@@jcrides1320 or maybe doctors loved him! money grubbing ones at least! more open windows that most kids cant close can equal kids getting more colds which means more kids going to see the doctor and getting medicine! lol
The windows on the bus go up and down
That kid was KING
Just like the schooling system, the buses haven't changed either😂
Buses never changed the schools have! Gender i.d. and no love of country !
#government
Green Giant they’re talking about what they teach not that
yup, the buses are still the safest and the school system still produces the most innovative, inventive, entrepreneurial, ... people in the world. if ain't broke...
@Danny Hemphill No, you're wrong.
My grandfather in the 30s every morning he walked for an hour he fought 1 or 2 bears and swim through a fast flowing river to go to school
Zaxaris Petixos 😂😂
I doubt he “fought 1or 2 bears” or “swim through a fast moving river” because 1 a bear would destroy him, 2 he would be soaking wet, 3 sounds like he lived in no where so i doubt there was a school near him.
@@Ohio-gx2eo r/woooosh
@@Ohio-gx2eo 🤷🏻♂️ No school buses for him i guess
Zaxaris Petixos ?
This is one of those classic cases of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.
One of the classic case of unsafe, noisy, polluting, outdated, unpractical, ridiculous.
@@paname514 And yet the number of deaths is incredibly lower for buses than for cars.
Like M2
@@VinnyMartello Only thing safer than a school bus is a plane or helicopter.
@@paname514 true, the engine does need a redo.
Some buses don’t even have seatbelts..
*chuckles* “I’m in danger”
Lmao Ralph was on the bus saying that 😂
The Joe Show yeah we know... this is a joke from the simpson... check it out
Nah not really...
Same. He said “even”, but every bus I’ve ever rode on had no seatbelts.
That’s not funny little kid it’s cringy
Dad used to always say "I'm not driving you to school, the bus is safer!"
....Guess he was right again
Your dad must be a smart guy
I guess you were the bully kid than. :)
Y B lol
Not from the bully
"what makes school buses so safe?" the professional driver
Ethan Brush not really. It’s actually pretty easy to get a school bus drivers license. Growing up, most of our bus drivers were either semi retired people or part timers who had anther full time job. My great aunt was an exception, as school bus driver was her career.
Plus many school bus mechanics are people who couldn’t make it in dealers or independent shops. As far as maintenance, it could easily take all day to just check the air pressures in a fleet of school buses, depending on the size of the company.
We finished raising our kids but I was always quite pleased with the drivers. They weren't cast from the same mold but they cared about the kids. If a driver saw a car he didn't like by the bus stop, he would finish the run without letting our kids off and drop them off at the end of his run when the car was gone. (It never happened but I suspect he was prepared to call the sheriffs if necessary.
When I was in elementary school my bus stop used to be at the end of my street, the driver had the option of either going into the park across the roads parking lot and doing a 3 point turn, or continue on a crescent that went steep uphill.
Well one day the parking lot had a car in it so she had to use the crescent, she goes uphill turns too sharp and hits a car parked on the left side of the row, since our buses are basically tanks no one noticed, she then backed up completely scratching up the side of another car and the kids on the right saw the destruction, she then panicked and hard reversed into another car.
We pretty much felt nothing but the sides of the door were destroyed.
We had a mediocre driver on a very safe bus.
CamaroAmx
In my state, they have to get a CDL and those aren't as easy to get when compared to the Class O licenses
Part of it is that the drivers usually drive the same route every day.
still remember a Humvee crashed into the back of a schoolbus.
The Humvee was a total lost,school bus only suffered minor damage.
States school buses are strong
Dude it was an H3 hummer. If a humvee was involved, the story would've been different
@@LSD97123 School buses changed in Japan already. 🎌
School buses have newer bodies, newer engines transmission tires structure. They are completely different. Only the general shape of the bus remains
False, some school districts in the United States have school buses with Rear-Mounted Engines and flat fronts, not the same buses at seen here.
Bombardier Transportation yup the new blue birds. This is correct
Yeah it's the same as the phone video. If you know someone about each topic, then you know they changed, but looking at it from the outside,I see how someone might not see how they are different.
@@Cards8114 sure, but at the same time they aren't using 1940s engines.
plus companies like Thomas are starting to build hybrid or electric buses, the powertrain will be completely different
Parents/ grandparents: WHen I was your age I had to walk 7 miles up a mountain and swim over a lake to get to school we didn't have buses
Me: oh yah then what's T H I S 0:32
Eden Garcia if u have immigrant parents den there’s a high chance they didn’t even have school buses, they would just walk to and from school.
Abbas Al Mansuri he was joking
When i go to mexico i dont see schoolbuses
Your grandparents had it easy. I had to walk 7 miles to and from school and it was uphill both ways. :)
@@buzzlightyear1010 little late but I’m Native American my grandmother is full blood Chickasaw/Choctaw and grew up in California the worst she had to do was go help a friend find her ear after it got cut off in a riot
The picture of the 2020 bus is actually of a bus about 25 years old, lol
At what part of the video?
@@florjanbrudar692 the beginning
Just American school buses. School buses in other countries don’t look the same.
In my country they use vans.
Not just the US, Canada also has the same type of school buses. But lots of countries have the Yellow scheme so they are similar in some ways.
Why do school buses engine still in front like old school not like other new buses?
In my. Country. We use double decker and minibuses. We don't use those yellow ones
Clementine Washburn its not even your conversation people are just talking about the different school busses around the world. It is quite interesting to know what it is like it other countries.
At my school kids get into fights on who has the newest bus lol
Who wouldnt look at how ugly they are
That sounds like a sight to see... interesting lol.
I like the older buses, rode on a 1984 the other day
@@phil_the_cow The bus I rode in 9th grade was from 1974. It was so dirty and messed up and water would leak from the top. Fortunately, we got a new bus last year. I did not like the older ones
DARTrider tbh the older the buses are way better. No radio so the back just makes the music and it isn’t cringe. The buses with the seatbelts vertically make it harder to sleep on them, so what’s honestly good abt new.
Video: "80 years later, it looks almost exactly the same" Me: "Not really"
I was in a minor accident as a student while in a school bus. It felt similar to when the bus goes over the curb on a tight turn, which is what I thought had happened, when in fact we were rear ended by a taxi. The front end of the taxi looked like an accordion and the air bags had been deployed, while the bus had zero damage and no one was injured.
“Although 8 states require seat belts on buses”
Me seeing Texas: *visible confusion*
Ikr i live in Texas and my bus doesn’t have any seatbelts except the driver’s seat
Same for California 50% of school buses don’t have seat belts and when they do no one makes you put them on
Newly manufactured buses require seatbelts in those states, but not existing ones.
No on uses the seatbelts in Florida, just sayin
@@dogger20011 Buses ordered after January 1, 2001 in Florida must be equipped with seat belts at all seating positions. Some districts still have older buses.
My grandad and dad never took the bus. They walked “ 12 miles through the snow and rain, up 4 hills and blah blah blah” 😂😂
You're from which country
you forgot to add
uphill BOTH WAYS
"And when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance upon our graves, singing hallellujah..."
They had to mine through the hills
We must be related! My grandparents and dad use to say same thing. Even though There is no hills here. Maybe they walked through the sand dunes thinking that was snow and hills. Here in Mid Atlantic. 😄
They might look the same, but they don't sound the same. I grew up in the 80s when those old international loadstars were just about all that were being used at the time. They had five speed manual transmissions that you could here coming for miles. They had a unique character about them. They seemed to last forever. Fond memories
“School buses transport 26 million students a day”
Corona virus: the best I can do is tree fiddy
Business insider - “school buses haven’t changed”
My school bus with WiFi - “am I a joke to you?”
Understanding/comprehension picking up information. *FAIL*
albear972 great joke!
Lemme guess...your school bus is one of those Thomas Built Buses
@@justincui My school bus was either a Blue Bird Conventional, Blue Bird Handy Bus, Blue Bird All-American, Blue Bird TC-1000 or Blue Bird TC-2000.
My bus has wifi but it doesnt work at all. I will even go as far as saying the actual schools wifi is better
“If it ain’t broken, then don’t fix it”
Not hurting anything by keeping it the same
Unless people's lives rely on it
Exactly , sometimes people hate change besides school buses are safe as hell
Then why doesn't it have seatbelts
@Fuert Neigt safe as hell =/= 100% safe
@@SouthernBelleReviews probably same reason why city buses don't have them either.
I rode on the same bus my mother took to school more than a few times when I was in school. Not only do school buses not change much, school districts don't replace them very often either. New standards are good and need to be updated with the times, but that doesn't mean you won't have a 30+ year old school bus pull up to bring your kid to school either.
If your school district cant afford them that is
"Busses are safer because of how they are built"
The professional driver who had to get a special licence: :/
and how does a special license change things?
We all got a "special license".
What does change things is that the driver is paid by the hour and is in no hurry.
1932: Soon, we will have flying cars in the future!
2020: *Why do school buses still look the same?*
Underrated🤣
You can still technically say that soon we will have flying cars IN THE FUTURE because it's always years away just beyond our grasp but we know it will always be in the future (so it'll never actually happen)
@@144chosen OVERrated
@Jason Smith/videos Hover cars would be just as dangerous. When you're not connected to the ground, all surfaces act like ice.
when i was in 8th grade i was in a school bus accident a lady turning into a store with a large suv turned infront of us and we hit her at 35mph in the compartment i only felt a sharp thud and her suv cas completely totalled and she needed to go the er unfortunatly as for the bus well everyone was fine and the bumper fell off thats it we had the same bus the next day after the accident
stay safe!
I hate it when people use the word accident
Use the word collision
@@lintonfr no
@@khoado2060 Crazy murderous bus driver on the loose!
@Linton you’re the new definition of accident then
I love the thumbnail of comparing a 1930s bus to a 1990s bus while calling the 1990s bus a 2020
That late 1930’s school bus looks like a Hilton compared to the type of Buses in my country
I remember during my junior high years when my school bus, bus #1, had a radio and A/C installed. No more were we bored and hot on our bus. It was a BlueBird diesel Cab-over-Engine style (no nose) bus. My school bus was the flagship (model) for all other busses in the school district's fleet. Once the school district saw how well behaved we were with radio and a/c, they installed both amenities on all long bus models.
Several years after I graduated high school, window tint was installed and the tops of the busses were painted white to help reduce the heat inside the bus. This also saved the a/c units from needing to run all of the time saving maintenance costs.
I want to be a school bus driver.
I replied once when I was a kid and asked what I wanted to become.
I am 29 and not living my dream
“School buses are 7 times heavier than cars when filled”
Trains: allow me to introduce myself
greedylou7 lol I know I know
No shit, they are busses.
Heavy duty mining trucks: Allow us to introduce our selves
@@themanguy2110 lol
Bager 288: Allow me to introduce my self.
I was an Engineer for one of the largest bus manufacturers in the US...(AmTran/International)...Each time in the US there was a major bus crash or bus /train collision , we had endless meetings....Did the safety chassis separate correctly? (The frame and rider area are designed to break apart .)....Bolts, chassis parts, inspected for tensile strength.......The next busses off the line are improved.....This is done every day in the industry...Not out of liability but it is a part of a great product...Pretty sure Bluebird, Thomas, and all bus makers are the same...
Keep them, they're famous all around the world
Light Endorphin he means it’s an iconic design that anyone can recognize
@Light Endorphin you are probably not the best in English
Here our school buses are more like regular buses
@Light Endorphin Canada.
@Light Endorphin central America
Why changing buses and not the education system?
its easier to change a vehicle that could be tested and easily implemented than a world wide system that has been tested and proven and change it to a new one that could effect students in unknown ways. and one would cost a few million dollars to improve and the other several billions
@@coreytaylor447 ^ this
@@coreytaylor447 do you think it is a good system the one we got?
@@muskntesla3493 its an alright system. Not as good as what the Soviet Union had or what you see in Europe though
@I AM SUCCESS it’s a trash school system in the us
Just in case some of our non-US friends are getting the wrong impression: in general, the US is not running around, using 40-year-old busses. The fleets do get modernized and updated. The buses I rode in the 90s aren’t what my parents rode in the 60s. And, based on how, recently, a school bus with non-functioning air conditioning was a major, newsworthy event when, in my day, the bus for special needs students was the only one that even HAD air conditioning, it’s safe to say the updates are continuing.
The big thing, with this video, is that the designs still basically look the same while personal vehicles have changed greatly. One of the bigger reasons for that is that cars evolve based on keeping up with stylistic trends and courting consumers who want the newest look, stylish colors, and all that stuff. School buses don’t have that issue. If a boxy, yellow bus is still an effective, safe way to transport students, they’ll stick with that look, even if it’s not cool and students mockingly call their buses “the big cheese”.
I got to ride on a 1984 Bluebird the other day. Didn’t even have a stop sign
Well, maybe not 40 years. They were still using 70s buses after 2000. You just sort of took for granted how unpleasant they were.
Just a short rough list of the additions to school bus specifications that have changed since the 1940’s
Crossover Mirrors
Convex mirrors
Camera blind zone monitoring systems
Midship clearance lights
Blind zone turn signal lights
8 way loading light system
Dual stop arms
Dual outward opening door leafs
Emergency exit window, door, roof hatches, and kick out windows
Increased regulation of reflective tape and reflectors
Aisle width
Power steering
Power hydraulic/air brakes
Anti lock braking system
Engine high idle systems
Electronic stability control
Automatic emergency braking
Cruise control systems
Diese/ fuel emission systems
Mandatory heater/driver defroster
Mandatory safety equipment (triangles, fire extinguisher, body fluid cleanup kit, first aid kit)
Driver seat belt
Student seatbelts
Bumper and side skirt strength requirements
Gotta love good ole aerodynamics
The same as the Ferrari.
true, a newer design could reduce fuel consumption through better aerodynamics
@@Marco-wz3ff And maybe make new ones electric and cover the roof with solar panels. Well, for most places between maybe 35 North and 35 degrees South latitude.
@@captjamus too expensive
@@Marco-wz3ff For a handfull then sure, expensive. But mass produced? Used to replace older models as they age-out/wear out as well as new/expanded fleets? Prices would come down.
To tell how different it is when my dad was in high school he drove the bus his junior & senior year’s in high school. Could you imagine that today?
Your dad's a liar
The Creeper www.myhorrynews.com/opinion/editorials/do-you-remember-when-students-drove-buses/article_374718e0-b5b2-11e7-b7c6-1bdfb91735cc.html
I found an article
Nobody:
Americans when any piece of tech is more than 10 years old:
“Cast it into the fire, destroy it!”
Yep. I don’t understand it at all.
As an American idk wtf you're talking about.
As an American I know exactly wtf you are talking about.
@Adrian Vegas Yavin 4 rebels: we must carefully preflight every X-Wing with much connection of hoses and cables and waving of orange lights on sticks
Luke: nah i'm gonna immerse mine in a swamp, it's fine
Rey: you are like little baby. i'm gonna fly your x-wing after it's spent several decades entirely under the sea
I know someone who upgraded their phone every year when a new one came out. It’s ridiculous because you’re just wasting money. I still have an iPhone 6s. It works fine.
wow, don't need seatbelts?
have you seen the experiment done about school busses? the dummy flew from the back of the bus to the front my dude, definitely need a seat belt
Well the seats are so high but I agree seatbelts 3 point at least
@@project6productions924 Seat belts would save some lives but cost more lives than they saved by preventing fast emergency evacuations in the event of a fire normally caused by a collision with a much smaller vehicle that otherwise left the bus largely undamaged and the students barely felt.
Literally only in America tho. Live in Australia and we don’t ever see busses looking more than 10-15 years old
Kunal Adhikari the busses are new the design just looks a little old
They’re talking about the design, not how long the busses are kept on the road.
toyamwarr he’s referring in the same manner, buses in Australia are modern period.
Haha sahi ho🤷🏻♂️😂🇳🇵
Exactly, they could of put in the title ‘why US buses haven’t changed’
I live in the rural side of US, so school bus is my only way of transport
What about taking a car, walking or even using a bicycle?
Andrei Plane “rural US.” This means he can’t walk or bike, as he likely lives many miles away from school. Also, taking a car may be impractical if he doesn’t have a license and doesn’t have anyone to drive him.
Andrei Plane um 2 hours walking. Bicycle is 1 hour+, and we only have one car which ny dad uses
@@SaintNyx Why would you live miles away from school if you need to go to school basically everyday? That's impractical itself plus he/she must have schools nearby where she lives otherwise I feel sorry for her that she was raised in such an area where you have to travel far to go to school. Here where I am in the US, it takes me 5-10 minutes to get to school and I'm in a rural area.
Andrei Plane You move to rural areas because they cost less the nearest big city is 25 minutes away by car. My town does not have high school.
The first and the second picture of school buses don’t look even close to identical.
I worked for a bus dealership for a little while. I installed security cameras. They are so regulated by state and the local school system that it was nuts. But the safety was second to none
3:58 lived in California all my life and never saw a seatbelt on a bus, unless they changed literally every bus in the last 3 years I can guarantee that "requirement" is not being followed by majority of school districts
I was about to comment on something similar. I've lived in Texas my whole life and even if there are seatbelts (which there typically aren't) nobody wears them because of how poorly they're maintained and how little rules are enforced.
Yeah Florida doesn't have seatbelts on all the buses either. Some of them did, but we never actually used them. Granted I'm a college man now so times may have changed
He’s right
I lived I Louisiana and now Nevada neither has seatbelts
thecrazymadbull Here in New York they are a bit more common, but from my experience no one uses them
Are you expecting to have Flying School buses?
That is the future!
Roshni J dislike
No I expect teleportation
Sky High
Its 2020 sooo >:/
Title: why do they still look the same
*NOT ALMOST*
Thumbnail: two different looking buses
I work as an EMT and the only call I had involving a school bus was one where the driver had a diabetic episode and his sugar bottomed out, causing him to flip the bus. Fortunately the driver was the only person on the bus. As we got him into the ambulance, he called his boss while he was on the stretcher. Boss was on speakerphone, as driver had a cervical collar on at the time. The conversation went like this. Instead of names, Boss will be referred to as Boss, and driver will be X.
X: hi, Boss, its X. My sugar bottomed out, I flipped the bus.
Boss: you ok? Any kids on?
X: no kids on. I'm ok, just banged up a bit. The EMTs are taking me to the hospital now
Boss: ok good. When you get back from the hospital, turn in your keys and dont bother coming in tomorrow!
I thought to myself "damn. Boss is an asshole. At least wait til your guy gets out of the hospital before you can him instead of being a prick!"
That's why London buses double as school buses. They generate a lot of income when the commuters get to work but can also double as school buses enroute. So relatively significant investment can put into these buses. In addition, these buses drive near every road in london the infrastructure is pretty darn good
In major us cities students are expected to use public transportation too
Some routes are the opposite, school buses that can double up as passenger buses (the routes that start with 6)
me at age 5: why do school buses look the same?
me at age 36: why would you ask such dumb questions?
Be thankful you even have School buses. In New Zealand where I grew up, we either walked or had to pay out of pocket for the school chartered public bus.
3:03
“Over seven times heavier than a kHOar when filled”
I live in Florida and every school bus that I have been on didn’t have a seatbelt
Same and I grew up in New Jersey which also requires them
same I'm in TX
I both lived in TX and NY, and neither of them had seatbelts in their school buses.
I also live in Florida & ive ridden plenty of school buses that had seatbelts
@@drews1209
Well I understand if you went to school in Texas and never rode a bus with seat belts. You see, it wasn't until last year that all new buses in Texas required seatbelts. In my school district, we have several buses without seatbelts including mine, however our district recently bought new buses and they all have seatbelts. It could take a couple years maybe even a few decades before all the old buses in my district get retired and replaced with new buses with seatbelts.
Hope that explains a few things.
the fact is that busses in general throughout history has mantained a "boxy shape" since the 1900s
Let me tell ya something. I'm from Europe and US school buses are the coolest buses I've ever seen. So cool and good looking I love em.
As a north european guy, the concept of school buses feels like one of the most american things you can think of. In my country, kids go to school by regular busses, or they walk, or bike, or uses the metro (i.e. in larger cities).
Or school buses are just regular buses from Mercedes, Scania, Setra, IVECO, Irizar with a little "school bus" removable sign behind the windscreen and back window.
Yup, in France you just have the local bus company running up special school lanes to pick up kids and bring them back home, but the bus are the standards buses, but in cities you use the regular buses.
Do remember that the US isn’t as urbanized as most of Europe. This combined with our personal vehicle culture leads us to having subpar or outright poor public transportation systems. The main public transportation we have that does work is our school bus system.
@@genghiskhan6809 Sure, but we Swedes walked or biked to out local schools in the countryside too. At least we did until pretty recently (the 1980s, 90s or 2000s) when the socialist started to centralize schools more aggressively. So now it's often (public) bus transport instead.
0:10 “some schoolbuses dont even have seatbelts” i have deadass never been in a school bus with seatbelts
Kid Chupacabra in NYC they have one in every bud and you’re forced to put them on
I dont know why they said it like that. The majority of school busses don't have seatbelts. Only 8 states require them 👀
Yea all those things that make drivers more cautious doesnt work, i see like 3 to 5 cars everyday passing my bus lights
I’ve been advocating for YEARS that we change our educational system. We’re still teaching students as if they’re getting ready for factory jobs. Makes zero sense 😑
3:58 when you live in one of them but you don't have seatbelts
1 Word: money
congrats, you discovered the reason the economy exists!
If money were the case..it would take at least 5 to 7 years to construct more modern busses
$$$$$$$$$$
Also “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”
@@gmcnewlook Yep.
Selling school buses to school districts is different from selling cars to consumers. School districts don't care if school buses looks the same as long as they are safe.
As long as they get the kids there on time in one piece.
It’s true that they absorb crashes well. When I was 10 I was in a school bus crash on my way home from school, someone went through the red light and T-bones the bus at around 45mph and all we felt was a moderate jerk. Some of us had minor injuries but other then that we where all pretty safe!
In some areas "flat front" buses are common, to eliminate blind spots, that's a significant change to the look.
Lived in Arkansas all my life and rode a lot of different buses and there were no seat belts
Same
You were probably born in 1950 then
yousef ogab i’m 14
I lived in New York for nearly my entire life and all the school buses I've been on had seatbelts and some of them had proper air conditioning.
this is a really well researched video. one of the best i’ve seen in this channel
“Some busses don’t even have seatbelts.” My school bus: No seatbelt,Broken window,Food and profanity on seats,no air,humid af
😂
Wait you have a Schoolbus? Here its just a normal Bus, Citaro, Urbino or Lions City usually. And its always a different one
When I was a kid, I took a flat-front bus to school. The engine was in the rear and it was diesel.
They all run of Diesel (for the most part) and the rear engine school buses are usually based on a standard passenger bus used for regular public transportation.
Unless the bus uses a monoque chassis then it's body on frame chassis is probably also used in a truck designed for carrying a trailer such as the European Volvo B5LH chassis .
Yes, Richard - Some districts only use that design. Many use both that and the long-nose design. They are weightier and many parents feel they are safer.
To Anyone who goes on Holiday or Vacation to the US, it’s different there, you cannot go around a bus which is dropping children off on the side,
I didn’t know this either till someone told me! You have to stop and wait for it, so don’t fall foul of that one. They do it differently.
How it says stop?
@@troy______ it doesn’t. It’s just a bus. The American ones do but here they don’t
Sorry I’m American
@@troy______ I know man, no bother
When I was in Belize a few years ago, our tour bus shore excursion was using an American school bus painted black.
4:41 I'm looking at the lunch boxes and I'm like did I go on a nostalgia trip
Btw on the thumbnail, the bus on the 2020 side was discontinued in 2005.
Can we have magic school buses?
Sure, anything is possible
No to expensive draw one
As long as they have seatbelts like the Magic School Bus did!!
Im surprised there was no mention of the Crown Supercoach, which were my favorite school busses when I was a kid. Those diesel powered monsters are practically rolling fortresses.
My Favorite Schoolbus is eighter the Mercedes Benz Citaro or the MAN Lions City, both masterpieces
For sure! I grew up with them in the 1980s, and they had been around a couple of decades by that point. And my old school district was still using them well into the late 2000s. They only got rid of them because of mandatory changes in emissions regulations.
Mine was a 2005 Thomas EF. Those things are so fun to ride on!!! Gotta love the Cummins 5.9 engine in it
Many, even the younger audience favor them specifically for the capability to become a Robust Skoolie conversion.
Crown went out of business 20 years ago due to the fact that they lied about their roof strength and got sued
Sometimes going on a school bus was a different beautiful experience you would have to wake up early and by that you were ready for the day and alot of sociallize skills were made there you would make more friends than the ones you had class with it was like a school trip all the time
We have tons of protocols we must follow. We try our best to make it the safest ride and the design upgrades have helped a lot throughout the years. 😊 great vid!
Wait wait , Tesla is coming here too , 0-100 in 1 second 😂😂😂
Her: I bet he's thinking about that girl Karen
Him:
3:34 In all my years of riding a bus I’ve never seen one or my bus drivers ever look as happy as her
You don't see armed guards in a school bus, but you do see them in an armored truck. NOW YOU TELL ME WHAT'S TRULY IMPORTANT IN LIFE?
When you said that 8 states have to have seatbelts you said arkansas and i live on arkansas and theres no seatbelts
Prince Brothers same in Texas
@@maben200: *new buses
Yes . The law in Arkansas came into effect in 2017 signed by Gov AH. There is no requirement to retrofit buses without them. Parents can petition school districts to retrofit or buy new buses with seatbelts. So the majority of School buses currently don't have them in AK.
It needs to be changed because it's old.
Don't you know everything old must be bad!
That is why i have stopped drinking water, it's just so outdated
I assume you have stopped breathing Oxygen too because its so outdated
@@KyraWS Haha...
I used to ride in a couple school buses and the short Chevy/GMC & Ford school buses had seatbelts while the long BlueBird school buses had NO seatbelts and the reason why it has NO seatbelts is because that state that I am in which is California does NOT require seatbelts for school buses and depending on which state you are in, school buses might or might NOT require seatbelts
1) Iconic
2) Decent design
3) What can you replace it with? Nothing, that's what.
Me as a kid watching SKy HiGh : oh cool a flying school bus hopefully we have flying buses by the time I’m in high school.
Me in high school : *freezing my arse off for 15+ mins waiting for my bus
"helps tell drivers to be extra careful"
I’m from Arkansas and I’ve never seen a seat belt on a school bus ever
It still looks like an iconic school bus ngl
Why no seatbelts? School buses don't need them! He says
Me: - flying over the drivers seat at 8 when the bus driver hit the breaks and landing on the horn- I disagree
If they don't need them, why do smaller buses with the same "energy absorbing compartmentalised seats" need them? Seat belts save lives, it's that simple. Getting kids used to wearing seat belts will get them used to the idea of wearing them in cars.
@@chrisantoniou4366 lol it wasn't an option back when I was 8 unfortunately that's why I went flying XD
I’m gonna be that guy and assume you weren’t sitting down properly? Sucks that you got catapulted from your seat tho.
@@3xfaster of course not lol I was 8 rambunctious and wasn't taught any better. No injuries out of the incident though thankful
@Mike H that’s fortunate! I’ll admit myself I slid under a seat during a panic stop because I was sitting parallel to the bench rather than forward. I think that’s why I sat up front later on my own because it had a kick gaurd in front so that I wouldn’t slide under.
I always wondered why there were no seatbelts on school buses. I hit my head once when the bus stopped fast and my head hit the window.
That is true. No seatbelts on most buses I have seen over the years!
It’s for emergency evacuations such as a fire
I live in America, and for some reason, the American school buses feel nostalgic to me
I'm a school bus driver. Almost 2 years ago, a speeding Kia t-boned my bus with 60 High School kids aboard. Hit so hard, that my huge steel box (HEAVILY loaded with 60 BIG kids) was swiveled almost 90 degrees. The driver died instantly. The police report confirmed it as 100% her fault (likely messing on her phone, + speeding). It was a KIA, not a gravel truck! Fourteen of my kids needed medical treatment, the worst of which was a hairline collarbone crack. Could've been SO much worse. A true testament to the built in safety measures.
School buses in Germany is the best. We use fully packed public buses with elderly people.
A bus is engineered for mostly protection and sturdiness in the structure, with sacrifice to fuel efficiency, speed, and aerodynamic qualities.
This is not the case in Europe. Fuel efficiency is very important. All long haul busses in Norway have Euro 6 diesel specification
@@rasmusjonssnnskramstad491 I see that in european cars all the time. Even ones sold in the USA. Our larger pickup trucks aren't even required to have a MPG rating.
@@rasmusjonssnnskramstad491 A school bus doesn’t usually have to travel very far to start with and besides, imagine the lawsuits that would happen if alot of kids died in a school bus accident.
This is the one vehicle a train engineer *never* wants to see stuck on the tracks.
Nothing builds character like hitting a speed bump at 60 mph without a seat belt on
"crash protection through compartmentalization" doesnt do shit when it flips lol
You can count on one hand the number of flipped school buses every year nationwide.