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@GreenFire @cstross I think it's still a complicating factor if your main concern is along the lines of OP's thread, namely impact on visibility and the knock-on effects on walkability/bikeability/pedestrian collisions.

But yes, if you're mostly concerned about road damage then mass is clearly a better criteria. Different concerns, different criteria.

I should also make clear I am certainly not trying to defend EVs for their own sake here: the Model 3 in particular brings up its own issues around walkability with its "self-driving" systems and that mass still makes a difference.

Additionally, I think EVs in some ways are a poison pill that enables us to blissfully perpetuate car culture while pushing our environmental costs downstream into places like far away lithium mines.

But the bit that was pertinent to this thread is that they're also a prominent exception to "vehicle mass scales with volume", ha.