If you want to know the answer just ask your Mom about your Dad and me. You don’t have to use my name. Just mention “The Bus Driver.” She will understand.
That's because, and this may shock you, lanes are made wide to accommodate for different types of vehicle.
Drive a coach down an B-road, and guarantee you it will not fit in 90% of cases.
If you look out to your wing mirror, and you're driving on the line, you're either:
A) Learning
B) Not a great driver
So are the walls. You don’t even need to look at buses. Look at a 1988 BMW 5 series- then look at a 2001 BMW 3- the length is the same but the 88 5series has more passenger room and a bigger trunk. Works with other cars too. Compare a 1980 Honda to the same model in 2020.
Look- really look- at the doors and dashboards of modern cars. They are in general- THICK. the walls of a bus are practically sheet metal thin. You gain about 1-2 feet of useable space because the bus generally doesn’t have all the gizmos and crash beams crammed into the body that take up usable interior space. It doesn’t have the extra interior space taken up by interior panels that sometimes have inches of space behind those and protrude into the cabin. Buses do not have the same level of equipment and structure as a car, and they don’t try to make pretty and ergonomic interior facades. They don’t generally have airbags hidden behind most panels either.
And as already said- they are wider than a car. Most cars could basically fit inside a bus. A bus takes up an entire standard size lane line to line basically. A small car takes up 1/2-1/3 a standard lane- and a large car generally takes up a little more. If you’ve ever spent time in a Humvee- they are pretty wide too. There are some similar (usually off-road or high performance/luxury) vehicles that are very wide. Most cars just aren’t very wide.
Drive a coach down an B-road, and guarantee you it will not fit in 90% of cases.
If you look out to your wing mirror, and you're driving on the line, you're either:
A) Learning
B) Not a great driver