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Why does he say buckle up if they have no seat belts…? And how has no one mentioned this yet?
She’s telling the kids in the rear of the bus to buckle up. Those are the only seats with belts if I recall.
A (Vehicles in field) x B (Probable failure rate) x C (Avg. settlement) = X; if X < Cost of Recall, don’t recall.
“Which car company did you say you work for?”
“Bluebird.”
Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Enough to account for 100+ deaths per year, but generally it’s the other vehicles involved where the deaths happen, since busses are huge there is innate protection just due to physics. Breaking it down, about ten people per year die in a school bus because of accidents. On an insurance level, it’s cheaper to pay for ten dead kids a year than it is to install seatbelts, and in capitalism money is more important than the lives of children.
Edit: I got whooshed by my own petard. What I should have said was “You wouldn’t believe.”
An interesting aspect of school bus fatalities is that over the last few decades there have been a roughly equal number of deaths for drivers and for passengers. Since school buses typically have a lot more riders than the single driver, this means that driving a school bus is likely a lot riskier than riding in one.
School bus seats are actually designed to be safer in an accident without seatbelts. Buses distribute force differently than cars in an accident, the seats absorb energy differently, and the layout is different. I’ve actually been in a school bus accident when I was a child, I got thrown around a bit, but the design worked well— I wasn’t hurt at all, only startled.
One interesting feature of modern school buses is that the body is clipped to the chassis rails so that in a head-on collision the body will slide forward a couple of feet after the chassis stops. This greatly reduces the deceleration forces experienced by the riders. This video shows it in action.
Speaking as a school bus driver, I may or may not enjoy seeing snot-nosed little children being thrown about violently.
While that is cool, the video of the crash test dummies does not inspire confidence in the claim that seatbelts aren’t needed.
Depends.
What the fuck happened there? Did the bus rollover?
Easy, just don’t do whatever that driver did and you’re fine.
Also, children are invulnerable until someone acknowledges their injury (may not apply to mental trauma)
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Here’s an interesting video that overviews all the safety features, the bit about why they don’t have seatbelts is at 3:22 and 10minutes
In addition to physics, it also covers the need to evacuate the bus in an emergency which is slowed by needing to unbuckle every kid.
Not to mention how the hell would the driver ensure that all of the kids keep their belts on?
What would they do if a child unbuckled while driving?
In addition to physics, it also covers the need to evacuate the bus in an emergency
And people tend to panic during emergencies. especially kids
Restraints on armrests would do the trick
Is the trick breaking every kid’s arms if they got into an accident?
Ugh, that just leaves a lot of mothers with extra work to do.
I wonder how they’re doing these days
Well, in that situation I’m not sure it matters whether seat belts are used or not.
Easier to find the bodies at least.
They would likely be less safe depending on the age of the children
I just meant that in the comic the bus is falling off a fairly tall cliff, so nobody’s likely to survive regardless of whether they have a seatbelt or not.
Just try to go limp.
“God protects fools and drunks” is the explanation for how going limp actually does save you.
So, give those kids a couple jiggers of bourbon before they ride, problem solved.
We had seatbelts on our busses, we just never used em
New York state requires seat belts on all the buses, but there’s no way for a driver to ensure all the kids are wearing them.
NY is also the only state that does not paint the “rub rails” on the outside black; the buses are entirely school bus yellow. I have no idea why this is the case.
Þe style reminds me of Goats.
I miss Goats.
Are you ever going to needlessly shoehorn other Icelandic letters too or do you just really love the thorn
Ive wondered for a while now.
They have deluded themselves into thinking that Ai won’t be able to use a thorn and will be confused by it.
It’s really obnoxious and AI knows how to use a thorn, so it’s just annoying humas
Thorn was English too at one point
this dude thinks iceland is real lmao
Þorn and eð are both old English letters and there are people trying to bring them back.
Just for context, not to advocate it.
Why? Most people seem to barely be able to handle the ones we have…
I say, let’s get rid of the sounds they make, instead
Many dialects have already done so and you are free to do so as well. Dis is a free country
Goats?
A web comic which was started in þe late 90’s and was active into þe 2010s. Looks like Jon did a kickstarter, printed a book, þen dropped þe series for a while. Seems to have been restarted recently wiþ an entirely new cast of characters and a more plot-ty approach.
Hmm was it more focused on the funny than a continuous plot? That linked comic definitely seems like I’m missing plenty of context.
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The style reminds me of Goats.
I miss Goats.
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A web comic which was started in the late 90’s and was active into the 2010s. Looks like Jon did a kickstarter, printed a book, then dropped the series for a while. Seems to have been restarted recently with an entirely new cast of characters and a more plot-ty approach.
Þat link is “new Goats”. I couldn’t find an accessible link to þe archive.
New Goats is story-driven. Actually, late old Goats had become mostly story-driven, too. But þe early stuff mostly took place as stand-alone strips which took place in a bar in Manhattan which was frequented by þe two main, human, characters, a couple of irreverent Greys, and a Satanic Goat. Plus, you know, a bunch of oþer characters - girlfriends, a recurring homeless guy, and oþer characters.
A mutant broccoli wouldn’t have been out of place, but þe strip itself usually wouldn’t have needed context to be funny. I don’t know about new Goats; it’s not really my style, so like you, if I drop in randomly I have no clue what’s going on and any jokes fall flat. Þe artist (Jon) is clearly following þeir passion, þough, and I wish him success if only for þe many years of fun he gave us for free in þe aughts.
If you do take on a quest and happen to find an archive of old Goats: it’ll be worþ it. I’d love to hear about it if you do.
