Why are school buses yellow? The yellow color was just the start. This is how one professor made big changes for generations of students across America.

School buses are a familiar sight in American towns and cities, and are instantly recognisable thanks to their distinctive ...

You can recognize the bus in this picture, even though it is distorted, because of that iconic color. It was chosen in 1939 and used all over America.

Depending on their playground status, people who took the bus to school as kids either have fond or not-so-fond memories of that childhood rite of passage: those giant leathery seats, the ...

You see the bright yellow color every morning, and we're not talking about the sun; we're speaking of the bright yellow buses that transport millions of kids to and from school every day, but ...

You see the bright yellow color every morning, and we're not talking about the sun; we're speaking of the bright yellow buses that transport millions of kids to and from school every day, but ...

You see the bright yellow color every morning, and we're not talking about the sun; we're speaking of the bright yellow buses that transport millions of kids to and from school every day, but ...

Children cross the street in front of a yellow school bus in 1965. H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock via Getty Images In a 1939 issue of American Childhood, the lyrics to the song, “The Wheels ...

We see school buses pretty much every day when school is in session. Day in and day out. But, have you wondered why school buses are yellow, and not a color like bright green?

Every day, 480,0000 school buses drive kids to school across the U.S. They go in different directions, and drop off at different schools, but you can always count on that yellow color being the ...

We see school buses pretty much every day when school is in session. Day in and day out. But, have you wondered why school buses are yellow, and not a color like bright green?

As for other school buses, a few school districts in the UK have adapted the color for their own buses. School Bus Yellow is recorded as Federal Standard No. 595a, ...