Decrease default car weight to 2 tons #5371
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See issue #5370.
Googling shows that the average car weight is between 1.6 and 2 tons. The default 3.5 exceeds even the official limit for heavy cars in USA and Canada, which is 6000 lbs (2.7 tons). With most customer cars weighting under 1.5 tons, I consider 2 tons a good default.
Among other things, this would allow northbound passage through Brooklyn Bridge in New York, which is limited to 2.7 tons. People have not noticed this regression in OSRM 5.19, since most instances run on older versions: e.g. 5.14 for the FOSSGIS server.
References: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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