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Though it might be a good idea to also encourage carpooling with reduced tolls, because presumably one bigger car carrying 5-7 people is better than 5-7 smaller
by jwells89 3y ago
Though it might be a good idea to also encourage carpooling with reduced tolls, because presumably one bigger car carrying 5-7 people is better than 5-7 smaller but still bigger-than-city-cars carrying 1 person each.
- throwaway562if1 3y agoPresumably the toll is per vehicle, so carpooling already divides the fee among the carpoolers.
- foobarian 3y agoWonder about the road damage aspect of this. If the relationship is a 4th power of weight, assuming a single vehicle with 2x the weight, it would need to replace 16 individual cars to break even.
- jwells89 3y agoGood question. Maybe the amount of toll reduction should depend on the number of people carried and the weight of the vehicle, encouraging lightweight vehicles that can carry a lot of people. Probably should have a hard cutoff too so e.g. over a certain weight loses the reduction altogether.
- diabeetusman 3y ago"According to a 2022 study from the Environmental Protection Agency, the average weight of a car is 4,094 pounds."[1] Going from 1 person of 200lb to 4 people totaling 800lb (in a 4,000lb car) increases the damage by less than an additional car (4,800 / 4,200) ^ 4 = 1.71 [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-weight-140033718.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-weight-140033718....
- acchow 3y agoI imagine the average car commuter in NYC weighs about 150lbs