Weigh It Up · Vehicles
How heavy is City bus?
12 tweight
An empty city bus weighs about 12 tonnes.
Enter your height to compare yourself with City bus.
- 2× the african elephant (6 t)
- 9.23× the family car (1.3 t)
- 171× the adult human (70 kg)
How to picture 12 t
Start from something you can see right now. City bus is about 2× african elephant. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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