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Here's an idea: All cars should be school buses! This also doubles as a way to encourage more mass-transit. :D

BTW I know you were joking, but one of the reasons they are so safe is that they are the largest, and more importantly heaviest, vehicle on the road.

If everyone drove such heavy vehicles they would lose almost all of their safety advantages.

In fact those larger vehicles may increase the risk of hazard to smaller vehicles. It sounds almost like a zero sum game, but I'm sure many more factors come into play.

They most certainly do increase the risk. There is a reason people choose larger cars when they can.

  tight : loose
  find : lose

Sorry to be "that guy," but I'm seeing this error with increasing frequency, and it would be a real shame to lose such a useful word.

That word has been driving me crazy recently. Every time I write it I stare at it trying to decide if I got it right. Most of the time I do, but this is twice in a row I got it backward.

I think I worked at it so much I got it reversed in my head.

Choose and Chose also always give me pause when I write them.

I edited my post and fixed it.

How about a memorable saying... like, "Lose the extra 'o', let loose with one."

We need more people like you in this world. I had a (foreign) prof that used loose constantly in the handouts. I think no one ever mentioned that to him..

I had an English instructor that would give handouts in which the word "Internet" was not capitalized. (There is only one Internet so it should always be capitalized.) I decided that I would wait until I was finished with school before sending her a correction. (I never actually got around to it, though.)

I think that a huge factor is also that people will treat a bus full of small children with a lot of respect simply because they might have / know children themselves.

You really don't want to live in a small community and the 'jerk that rear-ended the school bus in their F150.'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNixDlRoMvA

In cities with good public transport, many otherwise-would-be-cars are buses. Here in Helsinki many school children use public transportation, and none of the buses, trams, trains or subway cars have seatbelts, and as far as I know, nobody has ever suggested them to be installed.

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