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Originally Posted by Lazarus
Not to average speed but the IRS figures .50 cents a mile.
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For the sake of this discusion then; if we calculate speed in Miles per Year then as your speed per year goes up, so does the cost. So if the average speed is 12000miles/year the maintainance cost is $6000.-/yr and if the average speed is 18000mile/year then the maintainance cost is $9000.-/year. does this mean that the increased maintainance cost of speed is liniar? I think not, if we look at tire ware rates I have read that it is as the speed goes up so does the RATE of ware. If we look at the cost per mile of racing then we can see that the cost of speed is more like exponential than liniar, something like the relationship between speed and power. how much does it cost to go 1/4 mile in 10sec?
Thanks for the IRS number it is a starting point, does one of the engineers have a model they use to determin the cost of doing things faster?
