> given the testing that has been done on this it's the aerodynamics that matter more than the weight.

At highway speeds with minimal need for acceleration.

He's only comparing highway driving. As he notes, city driving (or really anything with a lot of accelerating) will see the impact of weight on fuel consumption. Seems like regen brakes can help mitigate that for electric vehicles.

Side note, if he set the parking brake when getting loaded then the second tailgate denting might not have happened. It'll also help save the transmission.

Could you describe what you would consider a good logging solution?

Haven’t found it yet! Jai’s implicit context pointer is interesting. Need to work with it more. It still has lots of limitation. But interesting angle.

There was a time when the Indy 500 was part of both the F1 and IndyCar championships (whatever they were called at the time).

> The easiest way to decrease unnecessary oversized vehicles

Remove/modify the laws that caused such vehicles.

> American style trucks might be big, but presumably they’re nowhere near 44 tonnes.

I believe the typical limit is 40 tons. I don't know if our tons are the same as your tonnes.

The US limit is typically 80,000 lbs, so 36.29 megagrams (aka "metric" tons).

The EU countries have limits of 40 Mg or higher (except Albania). Netherlands allows vehicles up to 50 Mg.

Of course this is all for 5+ axle vehicles. A 5-axle 40 Mg big rig is putting a 8 Mg of load on each axle (if it was perfectly distributed).

A Dodge RAM 1500 loaded up has a gross vehicle weight of about 3.27 Mg - about 1.64 Mg/axle. Fourth power law means about 566 loaded RAMs would equal one about 40 Mg 5-axle big rig in terms of road damage.

They’re close enough as to not matter a whole lot for this discussion.

> FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022) (ic3.gov) posted Sept 8, 2024, 230 comments [1]

Apparently not anymore. Unless there's a different, working URL.

Less money can mean more stress.

WoTMUD taught me to type fast.

Rust doesn't consider leaking memory to be unsafe.

I mentioned it because I often hear people (not in this thread though) that thanks to its GC preventing memory leaks, Go is memory safe. The GC's role in memory safety is preventing dangling pointers though.