Why is it that lightning never strikes a bus?

Question

Why is it that lightning never strikes a bus?

Answer 1

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

Answer 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.

Answer 3

bcoz lightning never struck to a moving body.

Answer 4

they do.

Answer 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.

Answer 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.

Answer 7

pfft who said that?