Thank you for the correction. Like I said, I'm too high to analyze my notes from high school and my old sources were all dead links. The point still stands though, a semi is doing a ton of damage to the road compared to normal vehicles. Cars aren't sustainable for other reasons, but currently the big issue I see in America is an inability to actually maintain the infrastructure that's there. Even ignoring environmental damage and everything else, semis essentially make maintaining roads impossible
yeah your math is a bit off. Don't think of it in terms of weight but in proportions.
A 50% weight increase corresponds to: 1.54=5.0625
So more than 5 times the road damage.
https://streetsmn.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/vehicle-weight-and-damage-chart.jpg
Thank you for the correction. Like I said, I'm too high to analyze my notes from high school and my old sources were all dead links. The point still stands though, a semi is doing a ton of damage to the road compared to normal vehicles. Cars aren't sustainable for other reasons, but currently the big issue I see in America is an inability to actually maintain the infrastructure that's there. Even ignoring environmental damage and everything else, semis essentially make maintaining roads impossible
Yeah it's financial unsustainable in a literal sense.