farcasterHigher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds
guyrocketWhat about school busses? They have very high hoods and many danger areas where the driver cannot see, right?
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Yeah; but you also need a special license to operate a bus that requires more training than driving an 18-wheeler for logistics. You also still have much more visibility over the hood in a bus.
Source: Was a school bus driver.
Interesting, I did not know that.
I hope now that cameras are cheap and common that they will start adding them to busses to cover those blind spots. Not a perfect solution, but better than nothing.
It’s been a few years since I was doing that, so I didn’t get to drive them, but newer school busses my company was in the process of aquiring before I left did have blind spot camera systems.