Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
krashmo@lemmy.world 9 months ago18 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.
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.
They do. There are additional fee’s and fuel surcharges that states make transport companies pay for road upeek.
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.
Mr_Smiley@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The article is focused on passenger cars becoming heavier, no?
krashmo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, but you brought up other heavy vehicles not me.