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These school buses no longer belch pollution. They also give the grid a break.
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When you have the buses as batteries, they can not be used as buses. Most places use buses as a general public transport network and not just for school children. Hence they run through the entire day and need to be recharged over night. Students then just use the general public transport to go to school.
This is not a genius idea, but a waste of resources.
It's never really occurred to me that the US is quite unusual in having fleets of buses dedicated to getting kids to and from school. I wonder why that is?
Because yeah, here in the UK kids either go under their own steam, are dropped off by their parents, or take regular public transport (or a regular bus that's chartered for the school run twice a day).
Because us doesn't have public transit, and is pretty spread out, so walking isn't always feasible. A lot of people do drop kids off though, but it leads to huge traffic jams.
Why can they not just use the school buses to create a simple very basic bus based public transit system?
Probably liability? And maybe they only pay the drivers part time? Plus, the school buses are absolutely the cheapest money can buy. The seats are too close together for adults to use, and they still might not have seatbelts?