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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Way bad juju to run over kids in a schoolbus. Mine had bilndspot mirrors all over, and you never backed up after you dropped kids, pretty much only went forward and our rules were get out and look before backing even empty.
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He didn't run her over. Just that without the curved mirrors on the front (cross-over or half-moon mirrors) he wouldn't have seen her. Of course realizing that he didn't see where she had gone also was a clue. He didn't move the bus but left it parked, turned it off, took the keys out and went out and asked her why she was leaning on the bumper. Her answer was "I got tired."
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
School buses should all get surround view cameras.
Cameras are so cheap these days that there's no excuse not to have them. If they were included during the manufacturing phase, I bet it adds $100 to the cost of the quarter million dollar vehicle.
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I've used a surround view camera system on the Nissan Leaf we had. Pretty neat.
For school buses or SUV's and pickups, I'm not so sure. The screen would have to be up where you don't have to take your eyes off the road. The curved mirrors on the front of a school bus are in a good spot to see those kinds of things.
