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A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)

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[+] [email protected] -23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What a load of shit. Pretty sure roads are already used by many vehicles of Greater mass than 7000lbs. Trucks. Buses. Coaches.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

18 wheelers and other heavy vehicles are definitely not going to be stopped by a guardrail. They also disintegrate any small passenger vehicle they come in contact with at any significant speed. I'm not sure how pointing out that they are dangerous is a load of shit.

Additionally, heavy vehicles cause upwards of 80% of road wear, which means we are subsidizing private transport companies by not forcing them to fund a proportional amount of road maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Additionally, heavy vehicles cause upwards of 80% of road wear, which means we are subsidizing private transport companies by not forcing them to fund a proportional amount of road maintenance.

They do. There are additional fee's and fuel surcharges that states make transport companies pay for road upkeep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They pay more but not 80% of the total cost of maintenance. That's what the distribution would need to be in order to cancel out the outsized influence they have on infrastructure degradation.