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by necovek 663 days ago
Yeah, large feet would reduce the pressure on the ground, though it would still suffer some effects for sure — but the goal is to avoid rubber and microplastics, so metal feet it is :)

Anyway, I agree that a wheeled vehicle is probably going to win on efficiency just the same, though wheels do require better roads than legs do (eg. common example is stairs).

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A bicycle can do stairs just fine. They're tricky, but not much more than a similarly-steep hill would be. (Of course, that's ignoring wear on the tyres from going over the edges of the steps.)
With wheels, it depends on the size of the wheel what unevenness in the terrain it can cover.

Eg. a monster truck can handle more of it, but it's impractical for a bunch of other reasons.

Similar holds for legs, but legs can usually do jumps too.