Ride a motorcycle behind a car - then ride behind a bus. You'll really understand the difference from that point of view.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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How does that work when you park each one in a standard parking spot
For real though, cars feel big and we aren't equipped to understand speeds above like 25 mph. It's easy to think that in a standard sized car there is only like a foot or two on either side of your car and the other lanes and that each of those dashed lines on the pavement are just a couple feet long. In reality almost all cars and standard duty trucks and vans are less than 7 feet wide, most are closer to 6 and the lane itself is 12 feet wide. Each of those dashed lines is 10 feet long and twenty feet separates each line.
Man discovers the concept of width
I think he's assuming all vehicles are the same width.
Because they all fit on the same road
Reference
City | Transit Buses have average lengths of 39'2” (11.95 m), widths of 8'4” (2.55 m), heights of 9'10” (2.99 m)
Most popular “car” in US—Ford F-150
Overall length, 19.3’ ; Cab height, 6.45’ ; Width - Excluding mirrors, 6.66’
Lane widths in US vary, but should be between 9’ and 12’ (inclusive range for both local streets and highways)
Conclusion: Busses are wider than cars, both can fit within driving lanes
It's more than that, though. A car is essentially an elevated trapezoid in cross-section, and you're sitting near the narrow top of the trapezoid. A Ford F-150 is essentially the same thing, but slightly less tapered and the base is lifted higher up. Either way, you're squeezed into a lot less than that 6.66' of width. Private automobile doors are also much thicker than bus doors, there's space allocated for airbags, there's stuff on the inside of the door that takes up some of the width.
A bus is essentially a rectangular prism projected all the way back. It uses the FULL 8'4, minus the width of the walls, for every row of seats. So it's probably more like 3-4' extra width compared to a car.
Does anyone else think it's weird that in our closets we can reach and touch the other side but in my living room we can't and they both fit in my house?
Edit: Downvoted by the guy with the walk-in closet I guess. Lucky bastard.
Edit: Downvoted by the guy with the walk-in closet I guess. Lucky bastard.
Nope. My closet is thin but wiiide. I can touch its width, but not its length
Girl, I may not be long, but I sure am thin!
You can make them equal size by amputating your arms.
That's part of the reason why you need a different license to drive it.
I drive an F-150. I cannot reach the passenger door from the driver's seat.
lol getting downvoted simply for driving an f-150
What year? I can in my newer 2500
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