the walls of a bus are sheetmetal thin, while car doors are padded with soundproofing and foam and handles and speakers and airbags and multiple layers of metal. plus the bus seats are benches for easy side movement while cars have bucket seats and seatbelts.
Plus a bus is wider than a car, and takes up more of the lane than a car.
they’re also taller than cars
Usually longer too!
Please use the spoiler tags people.
My bicycle also fits in a lane. And I can cover its width with a single arm.
If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.
Does anyone else think it's weird that in our closets we can reach and touch the other side but in my living room we can't and they both fit in my house?
Edit: Downvoted by the guy with the walk-in closet I guess. Lucky bastard.
Edit: Downvoted by the guy with the walk-in closet I guess. Lucky bastard.
Nope. My closet is thin but wiiide. I can touch its width, but not its length
Girl, I may not be long, but I sure am thin!
You can make them equal size by amputating your arms.
Your car doesn't fill a lane so - and stay with me here - busses are wider.
Wait until they have to drive a dually truck where the truck is noticeable wider behind you.
Same vibes
I still feel like I don't really know how magnets work. The more I learn, the more befuddled I am. Like, I can be fine with the physics and stuff, but then I think about it too hard or too little and it's like one of those seeing eye pictures except instead of everything coming to focus, I suddenly become confused.
Man discovers the concept of width
Yes, but bus does not fit in a car parking spot even widthwise
As someone who regularly drives a large vehicle, I find it amusing how big a berth folks in little cars give. If my box truck can make it you don't need to cut half way into the next lane in your Fiat.
Are you talking about those motherfuckers that turn a little to the opposite direction before turning? I fucking HATE that shit.
uhm that's counter steering and actually helps you reach the apex of the corner quicker.
rookie racer
The motherfuckers who do this take said turn at like 2km/h, they're not racing at all
Quickest line and far easier to not hit those rims. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
That is a thing you have to do sometimes, in a big vehicle, not in a passenger car.
The good news: I don't drive anymore
The bad news: I did that shit because I grew up on an intersection with a real bad angle, so the only way to see both directions was to angle the car flat with the road I was turning onto. Then, even after moving, I did it because it gives better visibility.
We might be talking about something different, or maybe I’m just having difficulty understanding. You at least have a good reason for doing what you did. What I was mentioning is when people turn to the opposite direction of their actual turn, because they think they need more room to clear the sidewalk corner. The solution to this is to simply pull FORWARD a little more before your turn. It’s NEVER a good idea to move unpredictably on the road, and that action is a prime example.
Also, I frequently watch morons turning right move as far right into the shoulder as they can hundreds and hundreds of feet before their turn, so then they have to either come to a near dead stop or swing back out into the travel lane (or both) before they complete their turn so they don't hit the corner of the curb.
Just... don't do that?
As you have correctly observed, the correct way to clear the corner is not to turn too early. But it is also to not deliberately start out as close to the obstacle you're trying to avoid (the corner) as possible. You'd think that would be obvious, and yet.
These are the same dillweeds I see pathologically swinging into the furthest away lane every single time they make a turn from a single lane onto a multi lane road, as if they're afraid turning the steering wheel past 15 degrees will cause them to spill their beers, or something.
My dad doesn’t swing to the left when turning right, but he does take the turn as wide as he can so he doesn’t have to slow down as much, for instance. Being a passenger in his car is nauseating.
Lol, brakes are for cowards.
It because they're bracing themselves with the steering wheel when doing a very exaggerated shoulder check.
My driver training course explicitly brought this up, but presumably not everyone took driver training.
But I don't think that's what they're talking about, I think they mean that little cars who give an enormous berth between their car and obstacles, so they end up taking up as much of the road as a large car would
You are correct that's what I mean. Little cars passing parked cars, rubbish on the road, or bicyclists in the bike lane going half way, or more, into the oncoming lane to avoid it.
Mother fucking idiot 18 wheeler drivers sway out of lanes all the time. I do appreciate you being aware though. Some of those folks shouldn't even drive a 10 ft box truck.
Yeah, I think getting a driver's license should be a fair bit more challenging, for several reasons.
That's part of the reason why you need a different license to drive it.
For real though, cars feel big and we aren't equipped to understand speeds above like 25 mph. It's easy to think that in a standard sized car there is only like a foot or two on either side of your car and the other lanes and that each of those dashed lines on the pavement are just a couple feet long. In reality almost all cars and standard duty trucks and vans are less than 7 feet wide, most are closer to 6 and the lane itself is 12 feet wide. Each of those dashed lines is 10 feet long and twenty feet separates each line.
Reference
City | Transit Buses have average lengths of 39'2” (11.95 m), widths of 8'4” (2.55 m), heights of 9'10” (2.99 m)
Most popular “car” in US—Ford F-150
Overall length, 19.3’ ; Cab height, 6.45’ ; Width - Excluding mirrors, 6.66’
Lane widths in US vary, but should be between 9’ and 12’ (inclusive range for both local streets and highways)
Conclusion: Busses are wider than cars, both can fit within driving lanes
It's more than that, though. A car is essentially an elevated trapezoid in cross-section, and you're sitting near the narrow top of the trapezoid. A Ford F-150 is essentially the same thing, but slightly less tapered and the base is lifted higher up. Either way, you're squeezed into a lot less than that 6.66' of width. Private automobile doors are also much thicker than bus doors, there's space allocated for airbags, there's stuff on the inside of the door that takes up some of the width.
A bus is essentially a rectangular prism projected all the way back. It uses the FULL 8'4, minus the width of the walls, for every row of seats. So it's probably more like 3-4' extra width compared to a car.
How does that work when you park each one in a standard parking spot
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