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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Buses and trucks sit a lot higher, and the driver sits a lot more forward, than a car, so the steering column needs to be more vertical to connect the steering wheel to the front axle. To make a bus with a car-like steering wheel orientation, you’d need to do some pretty creative engineering with the steering assembly that just wouldn’t be practical and would introduce a lot more potential points of failure.
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