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According to the law of conservation of momentum, it is the nature of nature to keep objects moving at a constant velocity and in a straight line. That is true even when the speed of the object is zero. The amount of force needed to accelerate an object, which is to increase an object's velocity in the direction of travel, is directly proportional to the mass of the object. F=ma, where F is the resultant of all the forces acting on an object, m is the mass of the object, and a is the rate of acceleration of the object in the direction of the resultant force. Therefore it takes twice as much force to cause a certain rate of acceleration in a two-ton vehicle as it takes to cause the same rate of acceleration in a one-ton vehicle. Once the desired velocity is acheived, no more acceleration is needed; all that is needed to maintain that velocity is enough force to balance the forces of friction and air resistance. So if the vehicle were traveling in space, where there is no friction or air resistance, and if the object stays far enough away from the gravitational influences of large celestial bodies and dark matter, it would maintain the same velocity until the end of time.

Another factor at work in this case is the difference between static coefficient of friction and kinetic coefficient of friction. Coefficient of friction is the ratio of the frictional force of two substances sliding against each other to the force holding the substances together. Any two substances, like rubber and rubber or ice and steel, have one static coefficient of friction, which pertains to starting a sliding motion from a standstill, and a kinetic coefficient of friction, which pertains to keeping a sliding object in motion once it is already moving. For a given pair of substances, the static coefficient of friction is always greater than the kinetic coefficient of friction; in other words, it always takes more force to start one object sliding on another than it does to keep it sliding. I know: vehicles don't slide, they roll. However, there is plenty of sliding going on in the engine, transmission, differential and wheel bearings.

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