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Here's an idea: All cars should be school buses! This also doubles as a way to encourage more mass-transit. :D
by civilian 16y ago
Here's an idea: All cars should be school buses! This also doubles as a way to encourage more mass-transit. :D
- ars 16y agoBTW I know you were joking, but one of the reasons they are so safe is that they are the largest, and more importantly heaviest, vehicle on the road. If everyone drove such heavy vehicles they would lose almost all of their safety advantages.
- wahnfrieden 16y agoIn fact those larger vehicles may increase the risk of hazard to smaller vehicles. It sounds almost like a zero sum game, but I'm sure many more factors come into play.
- ars 16y agoThey most certainly do increase the risk. There is a reason people choose larger cars when they can.
- blehn 16y agotight : loose find : lose Sorry to be "that guy," but I'm seeing this error with increasing frequency, and it would be a real shame to lose such a useful word.
- ars 16y agoThat word has been driving me crazy recently. Every time I write it I stare at it trying to decide if I got it right. Most of the time I do, but this is twice in a row I got it backward. I think I worked at it so much I got it reversed in my head. Choose and Chose also always give me pause when I write them. I edited my post and fixed it.
- nooneelse 16y agoHow about a memorable saying... like, "Lose the extra 'o', let loose with one."
- zzleeper 16y agoWe need more people like you in this world. I had a (foreign) prof that used loose constantly in the handouts. I think no one ever mentioned that to him..
- Freebytes 16y agoI had an English instructor that would give handouts in which the word "Internet" was not capitalized. (There is only one Internet so it should always be capitalized.) I decided that I would wait until I was finished with school before sending her a correction. (I never actually got around to it, though.)
- jacquesm 16y agoI think that a huge factor is also that people will treat a bus full of small children with a lot of respect simply because they might have / know children themselves. You really don't want to live in a small community and the 'jerk that rear-ended the school bus in their F150.'.
- sjs 16y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNixDlRoMvA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNixDlRoMvA
- jpr 16y agoIn cities with good public transport, many otherwise-would-be-cars are buses. Here in Helsinki many school children use public transportation, and none of the buses, trams, trains or subway cars have seatbelts, and as far as I know, nobody has ever suggested them to be installed.