nocturne comments on A schoolbus, stopping in front of a residential home, is rear ended by a full size truck

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

As i said in another comment, busses intentionally do not have Mansfield Bars so a vehicle rear ending the bus goes under instead of transferring all of the force of the impact into the bus.

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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, busses carry people, not cargo.

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[–] ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago

Yeah that's a fair point, I wonder if is not possible to have something like a Mansfield bar but independent of the passenger zone.

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[–] MrSmith@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As I said in another comment the american bus design is dumbass to begin with.

A Mansfield bar would still prevent decapitation on mild rear-end situation with a smaller car.

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[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

We are all personally responsible for the design of our vehicles so thank you for pointing that out we'll bring it up at the next meeting

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[–] MrSmith@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago*

I love that you said it sarcastically, like it was something impossible.

That's exactly how changes happen lmao

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