minus-squareluisgutz@feddit.uktoLondon@feddit.uk•Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized carslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days agoRoad degradation grows to the power of 4 with the weight of the vehicle: a car that weights 2 as much as another degrades the roads 16 times more. That seems to me like a good rule to guide vehicle taxing. linkfedilink
minus-squareluisgutz@feddit.uktopics@lemmy.world•What people online think I drive when I mention owning a pickup truck versus what I actually drivelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 days ago20! Wow… I get from close to 40 on my Toyota auris most weeks. And that’s mostly urban driving linkfedilink
Road degradation grows to the power of 4 with the weight of the vehicle: a car that weights 2 as much as another degrades the roads 16 times more. That seems to me like a good rule to guide vehicle taxing.