Timeline for Why would you build slow moving vehicles instead of faster ones?
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| May 30 at 19:39 | comment | added | JBH | @Bubbles Answers should only ever be evaluated in the context of the question. If you think a "yeah, but..." statement has value to the OP's question, then you shouldn't be discussing it in comments (because it's irrelevant to the answer...), you should be posting a Frame Challenge. | |
| May 30 at 19:36 | comment | added | Bubbles | @Nosajimiki Speed is good in and of itself though, not just outrunning zombies. eg it would require fewer supplies to travel long distances because the vehicles are faster and possibly more efficient. | |
| May 30 at 16:34 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @Bubbles Keep in mind that the engineers did design these trucks to be fast enough to outrun zombies; so, this is not a design flaw from a logical perspective. The problem is that they are encountering NEW zombies that are faster than expected. If they expected to have to face faster zombies, they may have opted for less torque/armor/cargo and more speed, but that was not a thing they knew they needed to consider going into the design of these vehicles. | |
| May 30 at 15:32 | comment | added | JBH | @Bubbles Keep in mind the goal of worldbuilding. The OP is trying to rationalize a choice he/she needs in their story by understanding what world rule would affect that choice. This isn't a debate about engineering, it's nothing more than "what Real World concept can I use to rationalize my choice?" and nothing more. | |
| May 30 at 15:31 | comment | added | JBH | @Bubbles It doesn't work that way, thank goodness for the OP. The mechanics of a load-carrying vehicle are, "you gear it to carry the expected maximum load and live with what that does to velocity." For your average vehicle (sedans and pickup trucks) the loads are related enough that maximum speeds aren't below speed limits. But when you shift to, e.g., a big mining truck the difference becomes obvious. Frankly, if we're designing the vehicle than yup, you're right... but that's not what the OP asked for. | |
| May 30 at 14:10 | comment | added | Bubbles | Your point about the gearing is valid, but if you are going for enough torque to carry the armor, why not instead change the gearing for just enough torque and a lot of speed? And getting blocked by dead zombies isn't a problem if the horde can never catch up. Although the point about wanting to just kill zombies is probably valid though, and since they are going somewhere, then heir destination might have enough zombies to justify it,w which could explain it. | |
| May 30 at 7:32 | comment | added | JBH | @Bubbles It's not the armor slowing down the vehicle. It's the design (primarily the gearing) of the vehicle that allows it to move with the load. Nevertheless, you have a point. If you can outrun the zombies, why the armor? Blood on the streets! That's what I say! Blood and brains! Braaaaiiiiiiinnnnsss! Just try stomping on the accelerator of a fast car with all that goo in the street! You won't go anywhere, but it'll smell like BBQ until the horde starts climbing through the windows! Blood and brains I tell you! (*Ahem...*) We'll now return you to your regularly scheduled program. | |
| May 30 at 4:12 | comment | added | Bubbles | If they are carrying enough armor to slow the vehicle down that much from a more reasonable speed, then that raises the question of why they are actually in any danger when the fast zombies come when they can just turtle in the wagon, making it hard for OP's premise to work. | |
| May 29 at 20:37 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |