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"The quickest acceleration—from zero to 60 mph in 20 seconds, fully loaded." sound of cargo falling over :P But serious question: how important is acceleratio
by micheljansen 9y ago
"The quickest acceleration—from zero to 60 mph in 20 seconds, fully loaded."
sound of cargo falling over :P
But serious question: how important is acceleration for trucks?
- Voyage_wanderer 9y agoMerging into freeways is always a problem and a hazard to everyone involved. Quick acceleration makes highway safer. More pulling power also means less slow trucks on grades and less jams around them. It is of course irrelevant for the bright future where are no human drivers.
- rqs 9y agoWow, I hope they put a description like this onto their web page. Because when I saw that word "acceleration", the first thing up in my head was a buffed bald man doing a car race with that truck. LOL. Oh, I watch too many movies.
- cm2187 9y agoAlso doesn't that torque helps when going uphill?
- larkeith 9y agoIt definitely sounds like it, considering they advertise the speed on a grade.
- JabavuAdams 9y agoFor quantifying discrete objects, you should use "fewer", not "less". "Less" is used for aggregates, continuous media, and numeric values. So, "fewer people", but "less water".
- Voyage_wanderer 9y agoThanks for the clarification. However I’m a truck driver, I passed my English requirements for CDl. :)
- tialaramex 9y agoYou needn't do this. Some random bloke thought it'd be a good idea years ago, wrote it down in a book. A certain type of pedant says to themselves, oh somebody wrote it down in a book - that's the rule them. Nope. You can't use fewer in some places, but the insistence that if you can use it then you must is an zombie rule. If "less" sounds right it's fine.
- JabavuAdams 9y agoThanks for that, but it doesn't sound right.
- bagacrap 9y agoMay have been a joke but 20 seconds is still really slow. I had a van that took 13 seconds on paper (although I never actually verified that) and the contents we never in danger of being tossed around.