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That's thoughtful driving. ESO. We don't think about how technology can drive social change and even create politics that at times are we're at each other's throats about.

Really and when we do think about technology then we're always thinking about

a social media or something with a computer. But technology in history takes many forms and one of them is those

long yellow vehicles we call school buses. You have a situation on

1946 to 1964, the baby boomer generation, a large increase in the population of young people in the

United States that means new school systems are being built in some cases students are going to be far away from walking distance.

Fortunately, this baby boom arrives at a time when you have serious improvement in school transportation.

In fact, there's a large conference that occurs in 1939 that starts to send set standards for how

we're going to transport pupils.

Companies, even everything from the car companies like Ford to

companies like International Harvester are developing ways to improve the

chassis and improve the length of vehicles so they can transport more students and

they're either adapting from truck designs or adapting from vans for smaller routes.

But one thing that's agreed on in 1939 is the color, and that's simply

called National School Bus Yellow. And the 1939 Yellow is a little less bright than the yellow we see today, but it's designed. The afternoon, especially in the winter months when at least in the northeast where I

it starts to get dark, you can see those buses. During the 1950s and 1960s,

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