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Why is it that lightning never strikes a bus?

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Why is it that lightning never strikes a bus?

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  1. The rubber of the tires help to ground it. Infact a vehicle is the safest place to be in a thunderstorm.


  2. If you mean city bus?

    Then lighting never strikes city buses because the aren't the tallest thing in the city.

    But if bus is on open highway and there is a thunder storm then bus will be the most likeliest object to be hit by lighting as it'll be the tallest object in an open field.

  3. bcoz lightning never struck to a moving body.

  4. they do.

  5. I'm not a physicist but I took physics in college.  My understanding is that lightning is always searching for the easiest path to ground (not necessarily the shortest).  Since the bus is well insulated including a large air space under the vehicle and rubber tires filled with air it is not very conductive to electricity.  Just traveling through plain old air or a different and better grounded nearby object like a tree would probably conduct the electricity better.  The lightning would then travel that direction instead.

  6. who told you that lightning never strikes a bus.

    but, it is true that if you are sitting inside the bus, you will survive.

    because according to law of electricity, if a lightning stikes a but

    the voltage on inner side of the bus  will be zero.

  7. pfft who said that?

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