Chandler Unified School District Bus
I read in an article recently that those three parallel horizontal stripes on many American school buses are more than decorative, that they actually indicate something. The bottom one is supposed to coincide with the floor. The middle one indicates where the tops of the seats are and the top line indicates the tops of the seat backs. The reasoning given was that if needed during an accident, rescuers would have a visual indication of where to open the bus bodywork to access trapped passengers.
But I also read another article that stated that those black stripes in the shape of channels simply reinforce the structural integrity of the body which is essentially made of just flat pieces of sheet metal.
Chandler Unified School District Bus
I read in an article recently that those three parallel horizontal stripes on many American school buses are more than decorative, that they actually indicate something. The bottom one is supposed to coincide with the floor. The middle one indicates where the tops of the seats are and the top line indicates the tops of the seat backs. The reasoning given was that if needed during an accident, rescuers would have a visual indication of where to open the bus bodywork to access trapped passengers.
But I also read another article that stated that those black stripes in the shape of channels simply reinforce the structural integrity of the body which is essentially made of just flat pieces of sheet metal.