But not with nearly every vehicle being one of them and operated by people with CDLs that understand a lot of the safety features of the road aren’t going to work for them.
Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
Mr_Smiley@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What a load of shit. Pretty sure roads are already used by many vehicles of Greater mass than 7000lbs. Trucks. Buses. Coaches.
x0x7@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 months ago
Not to mention that the 7,000 pound EV can do 0-60 in waaaay less time than a big truck.
Mr_Smiley@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mentions skidding on ice in first paragraph. No amount of training can reverse the laws of friction.
Thing is, I agree and think normal consumer passenger cars are getting far too heavy. Like people.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
18 wheelers and other heavy vehicles are definitely not going to be stopped by a guardrail. They also disintegrate any small passenger vehicle they come in contact with at any significant speed. I’m not sure how pointing out that they are dangerous is a load of shit.
Additionally, heavy vehicles cause upwards of 80% of road wear, which means we are subsidizing private transport companies by not forcing them to fund a proportional amount of road maintenance.
Mr_Smiley@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The article is focused on passenger cars becoming heavier, no?
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, but you brought up other heavy vehicles not me.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They do. There are additional fee’s and fuel surcharges that states make transport companies pay for road upeek.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They pay more but not 80% of the total cost of maintenance. That’s what the distribution would need to be in order to cancel out the outsized influence they have on infrastructure degradation.