School bus safety is predicated on the concept of compartmentalization, the safety envelope provided to students by the cushioned high back bench seats that are supposed to keep the children from being tossed about the bus in the event of a crash.
Certainly, no two crashes are the same, each with its own impact zones and forces that can cause injuries no matter what. That's the argument used by seat belt proponents. But today's blog isn't about seat belts but an interesting new commercial airplane passenger seating design originating out of England that promises increased capacity.
"Airplanes?" you ask. "What do airplanes have to do with school transportation?" The designs originated at a school in Stokes on Trent in England.
Modeled after troop transport planes, designer Howard Guy was working on a new learning project for the school's students when he had the epiphany that this could help airlines realize a 15- to 20 percent increase in capacity. Let's just hope it never finds its way out of the classroom and onto school buses, or airplanes, for that matter.
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