Ever Since I Have Watched Movies Based In America,

school buses have always been painted national school bus chrome yellow,

this uniformity was the brainchild of Dr. Frank Cy, he had traveled the country observing the various types of school buses in use and safety precautions that they used, if any, then in 1939 he organized a conference at the University of Manhattan in order to develop school bus standards, attracted transportation officials from all 48 states in the Union at the time, thirty-five states within the U.S. switched to painting their buses this color soon after the conference, as did certain regions of Canada, but it wasn't until 1974 that all school buses in the United States were painted this color, 


but here is a thought, it is universally accepted that wearing a seat belt saves lives when the vehicle is involved in an accident, in school buses every bus has a seat belt for the driver, and school buses weighing under 10,000 pounds are required to have them, but, there aren’t seat belts on most of them,


one of the reasons is that the closely spaced seats (the bane of the knees of tall students) are also shock-absorbent and able to protect children effectively enough according to studies by the National Transportation Safety Board and National Academy of Sciences, the seat design and spacing more or less functions as a “protective envelope.” 


which is great news unless you are a member of the family who has lost a loved one, figures show that 11 students die per year in school bus crashes, but mile for mile, this is about 1/7th the average rate of deaths in all other automobile accidents, but back to the yellow buses, I now know why they are all painted national school bus chrome yellow.