Why has the school bus looked the same for the last 100 years?
474765
Because itlooks formal and if u screw formal stuff up u r gunna foreget all about it and then in like the year 2060 the school busses will look like a floating raft on air.
1055804
their old stuff\n\nthey are alot different now
636880
No, they have ice cores from it that go back 100,000 years. Its edges were a little less icy up to about 600 years ago.
459813
Yes, 50 years ago there were lots of good buses in all the cities and suburbs. Most families owned one car. The wife would drop the husband at the bus or train and have the car. The kids took buses or biked. There were very few fat people because people walked to and from public transportation. There were a lot more buses and trollies than there are now and there were trains that were later discontinued. I love NYC because you don't need a car. You can get from one end to the other very quickly by subway. We should be subsidizing public transportation instead of sending oil money to terrorists.
4969
Schools get a budget every year.  If they don't use up all the money, then they get less the next year.  Its not about being cost effective, its all about using up the money.  Just imagine all the fuel that gets used with all the buses just to have a half of a day of school.
180362
This is a logical fallacy, appeal to novelty, that states that because something is newer it is better.  There is nothing, per se, wrong with following customs that are centuries old just because they are old.  It's just as wrong as the "Give me that old time religion" argument, which states that because it was good enough for Paul and Silas, it's good enough for "me".  That's an appeal to tradition.  People should follow what actually works, regardless of when it was developed.  I guess this isn't really an answer to the question, though.
52353
The IIII makes the visual face look more balanced. This is an important consideration in design today, so I don't think it's a surprise someone in the 17th century came to the same conclusion.
120251
well i think that the old model looks way way better than\nthe new one.that is a mosle car and the old look better discribes it. but if you want to by the new one anyway\nyou better do it fast, because they are going to stop productin. it was on the newspaper.
109850
It has to do with the the older versions of English. For example, back in the 16- and 1700 (possibly into the 1800s as well) the English "S" looked like an "F".
326572
I'll stick with today vs. 100 years ago.  \n\nThe health and safety differences are huge, and the abilities modern technologies give us make our number possible choices in life MUCH bigger.\n\nI would love to visit the past, but I live here.
489648
born in 87 I don't know thats not 100% true maybe because what they teach in school is so much more then what they taught back then and so much about beauty out there that everyone is so into their looks ...... That may be why
121950
it has been there for thousands of years
521083
Yes, it's going pretty fast! When you think that 150 years ago there were no cars or airplanes. Pretty freaky.\nNothing moved this fast in the past 1,500 years.\nAlso, going off on a tangent a bit... Did you know that 90% of all the extinct creatures that we know about (including all the dinosaurs) have become extinct in the past 150 years!\nMaybe it's all going too fast.
249540
Lol! Probably not for another 100's of years if it is possible!  That is an excellent book and they did a good job making the children's film on it, too.  A classic!
158473
they did a great job of keeping some real nice old lines and mixed w/the new.. sweeeeettttt the front end is just tuff looking :)
1118737
School buses are statistically the safest form of transportation. They are 8 times safer than passenger vehicles. Crash forces are distributed throughout the vehicle differently  meaning crash forces experienced by occupants are different while on a bus. There are  federal laws which guide school bus construction. School buses use "Compartmentalization" dynamics to keep the occupants safe. This is accomplished with narrow seat spacing with very tall energy absorbent high back seats. Lap belts only would increase the potential for serious injury in most crashes. Safety belts are required on small buses and  infants, toddlers are still required to be in a car seat.
825178
the time has long passed