• WiseThat@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Exactly. The damage done to a road scales with the 4th power of weight, meaning that doubling the weight causes 16x the damage.

    Meaning that compared to a person walking, or even a horse-drawn cart a truck will do literally millions of times the damage.