Patent ID: 8910992

Claim:
A bus including a forward cab section and a rear passenger section connected to the forward cab section with a partition wall between said sections having an enlarged central opening therein, said forward cab section having a driver compartment comprising opposed sides connected by a roof and a front cab window having an upper horizontally oriented edge having a predetermined width, said rear passenger section having a passenger compartment and a window cap unit forward of the passenger compartment that overlies the roof of the driver compartment, said window cap unit including a rearward slanted, forward-facing window that has a predetermined height of at least 18 inches and a first horizontally oriented edge that has a width dimension that is greater than a second opposed horizontally oriented edge that has a width dimension equal to or at least 90 percent of said predetermined width of said upper horizontally oriented edge of the front cab window, said forward-facing window being positioned so that said forward-facing window's second edge is adjacent the upper edge of the front cab window and is aligned centrally along a common central reference line with the front cab window to form a panoramic front window, said passenger compartment having a floor supporting seats for the passengers and a doorway on a side of the passenger section with at least one step to assist passengers to enter the passenger section, said floor positioned with respect to the panoramic window, and said predetermined height of the forward-facing window and said enlarged opening in the partition wall are all sufficiently large to enable a passenger when seated in a seat or standing on the floor and looking towards the driver compartment to see into the cab section and into the window cap unit and through the panoramic front window.