Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by tzs on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:43PM
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> Your source states that relative road damage between two vehicles is the forth power of the ratio of their weights.
I wonder if that only works for weights that are not too low and not too high?
For example a typical Eastern grey squirrel weighs around 50 times as much as a typical mouse, and a typical chicken weighs about 7 times as much as a squirrel.
Does a squirrel crossing a modern highway really cause over 6 million times as much damage as a mouse, and does a chicken crossing the road really cause 2400 times as much damage as a squirrel?
I wonder if that only works for weights that are not too low and not too high?
For example a typical Eastern grey squirrel weighs around 50 times as much as a typical mouse, and a typical chicken weighs about 7 times as much as a squirrel.
Does a squirrel crossing a modern highway really cause over 6 million times as much damage as a mouse, and does a chicken crossing the road really cause 2400 times as much damage as a squirrel?