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School Bus

The unmistakable yellow icon of American childhood/Cars & Road Vehicles

The American school bus is one of the most recognizable vehicles on the planet, painted in a shade officially called National School Bus Glossy Yellow. Roughly 480,000 of them transport 26 million students every day in the United States alone. They are engineered to be the safest vehicles on the road, which is why they have no seatbelts and are built like rolling tanks.

Measurements

Overall length10.7 m
53.5Burrito lengths
46.5Wine glass heights
48.6Discus diameters

Type C conventional, 72-passenger

Height3 m
33.7Crayons
12Candle heights
Width2.44 m
1.68Broomstick lengths
10.2Chopsticks
1.7 trillionthsSaturn orbit radii
Gross vehicle weight10,000 kg
333Golden retrievers
4.9 thousandthsSpace Shuttle launches
Typical top speed27 m/s
5.4Skateboards
2.9 hundredthsSound in helium

About 97 km/h, often governed

Fuel tank capacity1.1 tenths m³
2.3 tenthsKiddie pools
2.3 millionEyedrops
570 billionthsHindenburgs

About 114 liters

Wheelbase6.3 m
21,000Grains of salt
3.9 tenthsTractor trailer lengths
63Harmonica lengths
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