Why are steering wheels on buses positioned more horizontally than vertically?
A friend casually raised this issue the other day over lunch and it stuck with me. I assume it has something to with better handling but I don’t know for sure.
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The steering wheel is turning a mechanism. There’s a giant shaft behind it that you turn with the wheel. That shaft needs to reach the axle where the wheels are in order to turn them. On a car, that is forward and under the hood. On a bus, that is more straight down.
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