Date: 6/11/2026 12:57:56
From: roughbarked
ID: 2445967
Subject: re: Australian politics - November 2026

dv said:


SCIENCE said:

dv said:

Curb weight for the full spec RAM 1500 is maybe twice the weight of an ordinary sedan, so the damage will be roughly 16 times.

Of course some of these are actually being used to move heavy goods. But most of them are being used to move a small number of people, often precisely 1, a task that can be done admirably by a mid-sized sedan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

call us late to the party but we swear we honestly thought that to move a small number of people, often precisely 1, was a task that could be done admirably by a pushbike

or for distances more than a few kilometres, an ebike

or a train or a plane or a unicycle but that’s not the comparison that Rev was talking about.

There was an invention on the inventors which I thought should be mandatory on all semi-trailers. It stopped the drag of the wheels by putting in an extra fulcrum.
It wasn’t fitted to any AFAIK becuase it added $20,000 to the cost of each truck.

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