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I read somewhere that todays vehicles and the trend towards heavier vehicles is damaging older parking houses and roads.
by Alifatisk 3y ago
I read somewhere that todays vehicles and the trend towards heavier vehicles is damaging older parking houses and roads.
- kdmccormick 3y agoYes. Some of the environmental benefits of EVs will be offset by the increased road maintenance they'll require. Of course, the same could be said about unnecessarily enormous ICE vehicles people drive nowadays too. Vehicle weight really ought to be taxed.
- user_7832 3y agoAn interesting thing I've read re: passenger car weights is that even though there are continuous gains in weight reduction (for eg by using composites), the overall weight has stayed the same/gone up for decades due to more safety devices/crash zones etc. It appears to be the hardware equivalent of Wirth's/Bill's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law).