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[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 329 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In case anybody’s curious, buses are generally much wider than cars (my local buses are 8’6”, compared to the 6’6” Honda Odyssey); their seats are also narrower and the walls thinner, which adds up to a lot of interior space.

[–] False@lemmy.world 198 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They also have vertical walls instead of curved because maximizing interior space is more important than aerodynamics for them.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Two feet wider, but at least they don't need to park in conventional spots. Except shit like Escalades exist, which are close to 8' and are impossible to see around when I'm trying to back out of a spot.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I always love when I'm stuck between two small-penis-mobile trucks in a parking space.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why, whenever I can, I back into parking lot spots. It's much safer to back into a space because it has no oncoming traffic, just 2 parked cars to squeeze between and one to stop before hitting it. And then I drive out frontways so I can see. My Odyssey rear camera is very helpful for parking but useless for seeing someone zooming out of left field.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good idea, actually. I should probably get into the habit of it, I just have a bad pre-camera mentality.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 131 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because thats not how it works at all, Busses are much wider than cars.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For now. Cars keep getting wider year over year until they hit legal limits.

[–] match@pawb.social 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ford coming out with a 2-seater "bus" so they can release a truck that's 14 feet off the ground and gets 4 gallons a mile

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Ford has been making the f650 for over 20 years

Edit; it gets 6mpg btw

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't think those are street legal in the US though. We have one at my work but it can only be used on private property.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

They are designed specifically to be street legal commercial vehicles (aka no CDL required) in most US states.

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[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, anyone who has biked in city streets will tell you that the buses are much wider than even the big SUVs.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also feel dumb now because of this child I've never met.

But now I'm flashbacking to being on a schoolbus and holy fuck those walls are thin.

[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

those walls are thin.

I’ve seen pictures of buses that accidentally fall off a steep road or cliff and basically fold like a flattened cardboard box.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I think most vehicles would have a pretty rough go of it if they fell off of a cliff though, especially if they turned upside down.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

2x insulation, 2x windows motors, wider seats per person, and busses are actually noticeably wider than cars. Cars should take up between 1/2 and 2/3 of the lane they actually occupy, while busses and big rigs puch a lot closer to the actual width of a car lane.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Cars should take up between 1/2 and 2/3 of the lane they actually occupy

tell that to the stupid F-150s. 2 Seats, no aisle, and subjectively wider than a bus

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Between 1988 and now the f150 only increased in width by .9 of an inch. Parking spots are set by the size of the f150 because they are consistent and abundant.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but they were massive to start with, they've always been huge.

Europe has smaller parking spaces because Europe point blank refused to accommodate larger vehicles just because. The US is so obsessed with cars that the idea of going "no that thing is stupidly big we're not accommodating it", is not an acceptable thought.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 4 weeks ago

That's because it has to accommodate wide arses. If you ever sit in one of their seats you just sort of get lost.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 38 points 4 weeks ago

Buses are wider than cars.

Just look at this picture they're clearly much wider. The bus is wider damn it. Stupid kid.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Smaller seats and slightly wider both sides.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But could it be twice as wider on one side, and not wider on the other?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Some buses have 2 seats on one side and only a row of single seats on the other side of the aisle, probably because they made that side not was wide as the other 🤔

[–] HandwavyHeisenberg@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Certified Philomena Cunk question.

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[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Could be; isn't

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine explaining euclidean shapes with it's wider, so it's wider' ...

But what the kid was asking is why arent cars designed to carry more people with all that wasted space & resources.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

They weren't. They were a kid not an Internet hipster with no concept of delivery vehicles, disabled people, people with children or pets, people whose jobs and family lives require them to be able to leave and go somewhere at the drop of a hat, and people from tiny boutique nations founded before cars with excellent public transport that can quite easily get along without a car.

It would take me about 2.5 hours to get to work from home by bus. Each way. On a good day. With two transfers each way.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A bus used for an activity that requires a bed?

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 7 points 1 month ago

I had a friend in university who loved trolling a girl. He told her that we should boycott American and British goods, and that he had made a website to help: BanGBUS.com

She actually went away to look at the site.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

Almost there...

road space comparison of 60 people with different vehicles

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