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The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger

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173 points yasp | 1 comments | 11 Aug 22 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 1.469s | source
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bambax ◴[11 Aug 22 13:49 UTC] No.32425510[source]▶
An idea for a regulation would be to measure the ratio of maximum weight of living things that a vehicle can transport / weight of vehicle when empty, and make this ratio grow progressively bigger.

The ratio is probably around 0.1 today on average (just an intuition, I don't have the actual numbers), and ideally it should be close to 1, or maybe over 1.

For an ebike for example, it's around 3.

Moving 2-5 tons of metal to transport just one human being is positively insane.

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robin_reala ◴[11 Aug 22 13:52 UTC] No.32425562[source]▶
My car can happily seat 4 adults (so let’s say 250kg) and weighs a touch over 1000kg, so the ratio is 0.25. 0.1 would mean that a car that seats just 4 adults weighs 2.5 tonnes, which seems extreme?
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1. routeroff ◴[11 Aug 22 14:01 UTC] No.32425709[source]▶
A 2021 Chevrolet Silverado weight 5190 lbs [0], which is 2.35 tonnes, which is extreme but in the range of the article.

[0] https://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/silverado-1500/2021/featur...