Why do public busses have no seat belts?
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I was in a city bus when we had an accident. I completely slide over (i was on the side bench) and hit my head on the pole. Got a huge bruise.
Idiot thought he could cut off a bus. Now I hold on something when I’m in the bus. May not do a big difference but still do.
ELI5 – bus is heavier than what you’ll hit. Less impact transferred to passengers. You might get a bloody nose, but you’ll be alright.
Here in Norway both local and long distance busses do have seat belts and it’s required to use them. You can actually get a ticket for not using one, but the law isn’t really enforced that much.
You guys public busses don’t have seatbelts??
car is small
BUS IS BIG!
BUS hit car? Lots of energy transferred,people are most likely human soup
car hit BUS? Little energy transfer, people most likely not soup
Bc if you’re poor enough to have to ride the bus then the government sees your life as expendable
I do not know “where” is this, but in Europe busses **do** have seat belts.
All busses are devided into 3 categories:
Class 1, City, max speed 70km
Class 2, City and Rural, max speed 80km
Class 3 (coach) Touring interstate, 100km
Every country has different traffic laws, in some the use of seat belt is not obligatory on class 1 because there are people standing anyway, ergo it’s self contradicting.
Mercedes if I recall correctly doesn’t have belts. Volvo does.
But the idea that “it’s big and heavy and slow so it doesn’t need belts” is so totally wrong.
Bus driving is 90% forethought.
Due to the length of the hydraulics (the air has to go from the front brake pedal to the middle where the system is, do a circle and back to the front, there’s actually a time response lag.
And no bus driver wants this.
Ergo all drive carefully and forsee situations, in order to avoid at all costs a hard braking or manoeuvre.
So even in situations were there’s medium braking in strength, people actually hit their head on the front seat.
On hard braking they fly inside the bus.
So belts AND sidearms are needed.
UK here. Haven’t seen a bus without seatbelts for probably 20 years. Where are you?
I know for school buses it’s a lot easier to unload 30 kids if something happens than to have to unbuckle 30 kids in an emergency.
All buses around where I live had had seatbelts in them for a decade atleast, that’s when I rodd the bus to highscool so could have been a thing much longer I’ve no idea. Most people domt use it tho, nor did I until I became a dad and realised I wanted my kids to wear it.
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