Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you make want to go the other way. Making tires more expensive wont make people choose smaller cars, they will choose worse tires. And then they will crash into you because they cant stop.

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  • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a good rule not to make essential safety items more expensive. Because consumers in general will always choose a cheaper, less safe option.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah if anything a subsidy for safer tires and doing proper maintenance on brakes and other safety system would be what you want.

      what is subsidized, there is more of than there otherwise would be

      and the opposite is true for what is taxed.

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• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry, the tax is a great idea but taxing the tires is a terrible idea.

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  • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think he is close though with his initial train of thought. I remember doing some research on this many years ago and road wear does not scale linearly with weight. All other variables being equal a 1,000lb load going across a stretch of road 10 times does less damage than a 10,000 pounds load going across the same stretch once. So what we should really be doing is looking at semi trucks and the heaviest of consumer vehicles. It would theoretically make consumer goods go up in price a little, but it’s not like that cost isn’t already being paid/subsidized by consumers in other ways.

    Maybe it would even push the use of railroads for goods even more than it is used now.

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  • boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why is it a terrible idea?

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    • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Taking a guess, but it would lead to people replacing their tires less often, making cars more prone to accidents, and thus probably being counterproductive and more dangerous.

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For the same reasons others have said. Don’t increase the cost of safety equipment.

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