Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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If you're going to do it this way, I think you missed the opportunity to do it actually right:
The problem is not just the size and it's not just speed but really energy. Penalties should scale as mass*speed^2^ (perhaps with an income multiplier) and for fairness it might be worth subtracting a reference safe energy otherwise your ticket for going 56 in a 55 is still way WAY higher than 30 in a 15.
An SUV that is 20x the weight of a motorcycle is 20x worse at a given speed, but the motorcycle going 200 mph and the 20x weight SUV are just as bad at slow highway speed.
The energy alone isn't the whole story, the bike or low-hooded car is much more survivable because of the lower point of impact.
Multiply again by h_CM / h_CMRef where the denominator is the height of the center of mass of a typical sedan.
It just gets a little funky if, say, you're driving a sprayer that is multiple times taller so you couldn't collide with a reference vehicle anyway. Edge cases happen.