Paris aims to drive large sports utility vehicles (SUVs) out of its centre by hiking parking fees for heavy cars in the French capital, and it plans a citizens' vote on the proposal early next year.
It doesn’t work like that when you have exponential damage with weight. Cars use road capacity, but damage from cars just isn’t there. You get damage from seen semi trucks, freeze thaw cycles, etc.
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.
It doesn’t work like that when you have exponential damage with weight. Cars use road capacity, but damage from cars just isn’t there. You get damage from seen semi trucks, freeze thaw cycles, etc.
So what? When there’s a lot more cars, especially within a city, and when those cars get a lot heavier, it will do a lot more damage.
A semi isn’t going to drive over inner city roads, at least not regularly.
When damage goes up to the fourth power, cars are very, very minor. While EVs are a bit heavier, they are not that much heavier.
Semi, garbage trucks, transit buses, yellow buses, moving trucks, etc are the ones that wear on roads and what roads are designed for.
I’m amazed at the downvotes.
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.
It’s not exponential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law?wprov=sfla1
Perhaps I should say geometric growth. In any case to the fourth power is quite high growth.
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