My country uses a button in the back and middle of the bus, and when they are broken they use things like this

I love the string thing don't @ me

Wait, the US still uses a cable stop button in their buses? We phased those out in my country almost 20 years ago.

Other countries don't have the clothesline thing? Is there another way too signal for the next stop? Or you just talk to the driver?

Bus drivers be the kinkiest Mfs

There are also buttons on the railings(?) where you can hold on when standing in Canada and US as they use the same models of buses from watching transit videos.

These are common but I've also been on plenty where they have nothing and you have to walk still moving to front of the bus to tell the bus driver.

I remember seeing it first on eek the cat. the characters were kicked out after they pulled the string. I thought it must be an emergency thing because how unusual it is to activate and how they were rudely kicked. then I watched it again with basic english and learned that was actually how they do regular non-emergency stop and kicking them out was for comedic purposes

AUTOerotic asphyxiation

That's a pretty nifty solution for a stop button actually. Low tech and easily covers every seat.

It is very clunky and outdated-looking for anyone who's used to buttons.

I think the reason why American buses left them in was because it is considered rude to expect an American to stand up and walk three steps to push a button. Naturally, entering and exiting the bus is an unreasonable expectation, which partly explains the lower usage of public transit in the US. After all, Americans will spend several minutes driving in circles around a parking lot, waiting for a space to open up and aggravating themselves in the process, rather than parking in the next lot over and walking.