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Heaviest current production SUV is 6274 pounds for a Lincoln Navigator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlatives#Curb_Weight https://en.wik
by VLM 10y ago
Heaviest current production SUV is 6274 pounds for a Lincoln Navigator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlatives#Curb_Weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlative...
Federal interstate MINIMUM construction standard is to assume 105500 pound semi trucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bridge_Gross_Weight_Formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bridge_Gross_Weight_Fo...
IF you could get the big trucks off the roads, maybe use very small pickup sized autonomous self driving trucks running on and 3 inch thick concrete like a driveway, THEN $600K would probably be achievable.
There are also correction factors that a SUV probably never exceeds 5 MPH on a driveway and usually doesn't park there and frankly most cheap driveways would be destroyed by a vehicle that heavy anyway, whereas the road has to survive 24x7 service at 75 MPH. The pounding the road takes at 75 MPH at 105500 pounds must simply be incredible.
- HCIdivision17 10y agoFun trivia: road damage follows a fourth power law. [0] Double the weight and you do sixteen times the damage. [0] Link to link: http://www.vabike.org/vehicle-weight-and-road-damage/ http://www.vabike.org/vehicle-weight-and-road-damage/