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[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 268 points 2 months ago

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 147 points 2 months ago

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

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

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 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's why when I do drive, I drive a compact. I can't imagine trying to get out of a car or into one with two of those monstrosities around me.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I drive a small truck (Santa Cruz) and I always have to chuckle about how mine looks like a hot wheels car next to the lifted monstrosities around here.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

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 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] frontporchtreat@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but how wide is a bus compared to a Sebring?

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[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 100 points 2 months ago

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

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 33 points 2 months ago

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

[-] match@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago

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 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ford has been making the f650 for over 20 years

Edit; it gets 6mpg btw

[-] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

Don't those things literally have a bus variant though?

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, you can haul 30+ people

You can haul 6 tons of dirt, gravel, anything

Or you have a micropenis

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

From factory, those things are meant to be box trucks, dump trucks or tow trucks. Heavy duty work trucks. Not actually Ford's fault that idiots put pickup beds on the back and use them as their commuter. If you have a truck that big and it's not a flatbed at least, you're just a weekend warrior with issues.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I've seen a handful of them on the road over the years. There used to be a red one that must've been owned locally as I saw it a number of times.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I could be wrong. It might just be the one they have at my job isn't street legal, but maybe they are overall.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That truck looks like shit with those wheels. Hell it would look like shit on any wheels

Edit: oh I see, it's supposed to be used for powerline maintenance with a lift installed in the back, not like a regular pickup

[-] exasperation@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months 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!

[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 75 points 2 months ago

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 24 points 2 months ago

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 6 points 2 months 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.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 34 points 2 months ago
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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Smaller seats and slightly wider both sides.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months 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 🤔

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Could be; isn't

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 4 points 2 months ago

A bus used for an activity that requires a bed?

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 4 points 2 months 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 5 points 2 months ago
[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Buses are wider than cars.

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

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