You have to drive a school bus to the top of a mountain and clearly the most efficient way of doing this is to drive the bus off a cliff, plunge down into a ravine and smash into a thousand pieces on the rocks far below.

Now that you are no longer held back by the constraints of existing school bus technology you can build a newer, better bus, that can get you to the top of the mountain in half the time the old bus would-

oh wait you died in the crash along with all of your passengers, oops