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.
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.
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.
It’s always funny seeing dually drivers who are afraid of how wide they are. You can always spot them because they’ll maintain way too much distance from the curb, and end up riding the line for the middle lane. Experienced dually drivers have no issues staying in a lane, but the newbies will almost always end up halfway into the middle lane as an overcorrection, because they’re afraid of curbing their rear tires.
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.
I think the difference is in how people interpret the question of how they work. Like you could say, easy, magnetic fields. But you can always drill down to a deeper layer. How do magnetic fields work? Well there's a force exerted on a particle moving through a magnetic field because of the electric charge. Yeah, but HOW. Well, quantum electrodynamics and virtual photons. Yeah but how do THOSE work, and why? There's a fundamental level where explanations become WHAT something does and not HOW it does it. Whether or not someone thinks we understand how magnets work depends on how deeply they've thought about the question.
Man discovers the concept of width
I think he's assuming all vehicles are the same width.
Because they all fit on the same road
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.
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.
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
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
I drive an F-150. I cannot reach the passenger door from the driver's seat.
lol getting downvoted simply for driving an f-150
What year? I can in my newer 2500
