Not only weight based parking charges (and whatever VED morphs into), but also weight based SPEEDING fines please.
Doing 23mph in 20 zone in a heavy SUV has more potential to cause serious harm than in a lighter car, so represents more reckless driving behaviour by the driver - hence higher fine.
Doing 23mph in 20 zone in a heavy SUV has more potential to cause serious harm than in a lighter car, so represents more reckless driving behaviour by the driver - hence higher fine.
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Diane Coyle
Can we have weight-based car taxes too please? These are loathsome vehicles and they’re mushrooming all over London
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Doesn't the curve reach a plateau (i.e. death) very soon?
Recently, having stopped at a red light (on my bike)...
At 5am Sunday they were banking on empty roads, but couldn't have stopped if I had 'taken the lane' (sure death for me), or if a car had crossed the junction (Aylmer Rd/A1000, so very likely).
I suppose deterrents aren't aimed at nutters.
Anyway, EVs are heavier now, but no doubt technology will develop and close the gap to a car fully filled with petrol.
Smaller EVs have smaller batteries and while most of my journeys are short I might need to jump in the car to my parents at short notice so need the battery size- many folk are similar
A plug-in VW Golf Hybrid weighs just under 1,700Kg
A VW ID4 EV weighs between 2,480Kg and 2,750Kg
All are mid-sized family cars. I'm sure lighter EVs with less range are also available.
1) Fuel type
2) Weight
3) Size
So that the biggest, most polluting vehicles pay for their impact
I'd make the basis tax payable on a really small car, with multipliers from there. Incentivise the smallest, least impactful car size.
If not, basically start with whatever is and then make everything else progressively more expensive to use.
I'd love to see a means of discouraging unnecessarily large or dangerous vehicles in cities, especially those inexplicably fitted with solid steel grates at the height of an adult's hips or a child's head.
It would be easy to favour smaller vehicles in road design. Just make everything smaller, and don’t put-up with big vehicles parking illegally because driving them is hard.
Its the increase in speed over a limit that makes the largest affect to the energy of an impact.
Yes, heavier vehicles make a difference but not as great as speed.
If you double the weight of a vehicle, the energy is doubled, but if you doubled the speed, the energy is quadrupled.
Mind you, NCAP ratings cover those well.
Some 'little cars' used to be appalling.