In sintesi, esiste un forte interesse a non ledere l’immagine degli autobus – un mezzo di trasporto essenzialmente molto sicuro, visto che autobus e pullman provocano soltanto 0,2 morti per miliardo di passeggeri-chilometri, rispetto ai 6,8 delle autovetture private e allo 0,6 delle ferrovie.
In so doing, they have shed light on the position as regards the law, organisational issues, and the technical state of the art. To sum all this up, there is a strong common interest in not damaging the buses’ image as a basically very safe means of transport, with buses and coaches accounting for only 0.2 deaths per thousand million passenger-kilometres, compared with 6.8 for private cars and 0.6 for railways.
