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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A small city car (Kia Picanto) weighs about 900 kg (~2000 pounds), a regular Ford Mustang weighs just under twice that, a Mustang Mach E weighs over twice that and then some.

Damage done will go up.

If you take into account the amount of people a bus transports, or the "useful work" a small semi and garbage trucks do, not even a small city car can win in terms of damage done– let alone a monster of a vehicle carrying one to two persons.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Now tell me how much a fully loaded semi truck weighs.

Then take the fourth power of all three of those and compare the results.

I've repeated myself enough, cheers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Literally ignoring my points kthxbye

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fourth power equation you're talking about is weight per axle. A semi truck will weigh much more in total. But the difference in weight per axle isn't as high as you seem to think.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes I know it's per axle. Do you know what a fully loaded semi weighs? The difference per axle is massive. I invite you to look at the numbers.

Why am I still repeating myself.