p = mv

[LinuxGal]

Instead of speed limits we should have momentum limits.

"Hey congrats on your new F-950, your max speed in the city is 4 mph."

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not the worst idea. It’s about time we had a kinetic energy statute. 

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Instead of speed limits we should have momentum limits.

"Hey congrats on your new F-950, your max speed in the city is 4 mph."

For internal combustion engine vehicles the maximum allowable speed should be the speed at which the vehicle can achieve 50 mpg.

For f-150 that will be the speed at which the drive can push the vehicle.

[Jehanne]

You might as well use the relativistic version:



It looks cooler.

[LinuxGal]

You might as well use the relativistic version:



It looks cooler.

At 4 MPH that equation will never really kick in.

[Fireball]

It's one of those .1C things, an engineering trade-off, so to speak. 

[Ranjr]

It should be common sense.  If you live in a duplex, work in a plant, and can barely climb into the thing, it's dumb to make payments on a bigass truck.  I saw you, on the shoulder with the hood up by the expressway.  Why?  It's not like you could see over the headlights and down to anything near the engine.

If I had a backhoe on a trailer, or a sweet cabin cruiser, or a daughter who tested my love through her desire to show ponies, I'd have, not that truck, a different brand, but that truck.  But I don't and neither do you.  Enough already.

[Jehanne]

It should be common sense.  If you live in a duplex, work in a plant, and can barely climb into the thing, it's dumb to make payments on a bigass truck.  I saw you, on the shoulder with the hood up by the expressway.  Why?  It's not like you could see over the headlights and down to anything near the engine.

If I had a backhoe on a trailer, or a sweet cabin cruiser, or a daughter who tested my love through her desire to show ponies, I'd have, not that truck, a different brand, but that truck.  But I don't and neither do you.  Enough already.

Oh, the memories! My daughter, age 12, now refuses to ride the ponies.

[LinuxGal]

It should be common sense.  If you live in a duplex, work in a plant, and can barely climb into the thing, it's dumb to make payments on a bigass truck.  I saw you, on the shoulder with the hood up by the expressway.  Why?  It's not like you could see over the headlights and down to anything near the engine.

If I had a backhoe on a trailer, or a sweet cabin cruiser, or a daughter who tested my love through her desire to show ponies, I'd have, not that truck, a different brand, but that truck.  But I don't and neither do you.  Enough already.

It's a Darwinian thing, like peacocks advertising their fitness to mate (you have to be an athlete to lug one of those tails around).  But the word in the women's can is that a big truck with dualies just advertises a little dick.