Originally Posted by
Perche
You could take the bus. The grumbling doesn't matter. No buses, anywhere, have seat belts, not even school buses in the USA. People are just projecting from their nervousness about being in a foreign country. Buses in Italy are not known for being dangerous.
According to Wikipedia seat belts in buses have been compulsory in Italy since 2006, even though the article states that enforcement is low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation
Your claim that "no buses, anywhere, have seat belts" is patently wrong. Germany has had this as a legal demand since 1999. In Norway, individual bus passengers get fined if there is a police check, and they are found without wearing a seat belt. The legislation is for all of Europe (EEA). There is an exemption for city buses with standing places, travelling at lower speeds, but European standard is for long distance buses to have seat belts.
I would be very wary of using a long distance bus travelling om motorways (as between Bologna and Firenze) with the bus not having seat belts. Not because bus travel in Italy is unsafe, but because a company having buses not compliant with current legislation for road worthiness in this aspect cannot be trusted to have complied with other safety legislation either.