New Jersey is set to pass a bill that requires electric bike and scooter owners to acquire a form of liability insurance that doesn’t really even exist. The industry-backed bill would create more obstacles to owning low-speed electric micromobility vehicles that have positively linked to less car usage and fewer carbon emissions. Which is to say this bill sucks and I hope it fails. (It probably won’t.) Other states are also considering bills that would make it harder to own an e-bike. I guess its cheaper than building protected infrastructure to make things safer for everyone on the road.
Several orders of magnitude smaller than 8,000… So… 0.08 people? I do love your skill with numbers!
Exactly! Then why are you so adamant that it would instantly become worse if they had to drive again? Those 10s of ebike riders who chose not to drive aren’t going to suddenly kill 10s of people when back in cars. Given how many cars there are on the road, and the relatively tiny number of fatalities, the change would be 0.
I’m with you, fuck cars, but don’t argue with fake stats and severe exaggeration on important issues. It just makes your argument look bad.
(I don’t recall saying anything that assumed you own an ebike.)
EDIT: Ohhhh! No, I’m the ebike owner and fuck cars supporter. I was saying that I’m on the side of ebikes, but I didnt like your arguments. I can see now how my words weren’t clear. I edited my original comment to add “I feel like”.
Oh wow I didn’t realize several was always equal to exactly 5. Learn something new every day. And you again are pedantically assuming that this is meant to be an exact comparison when I literally said I don’t have the numbers—as far as I’ve seen, no one does.
My point is we’re shutting down a potential solution to pedestrian deaths before we’ve even proven that it’s a problem at all. But I will also say that just because pedestrian deaths are not declining doesn’t prove that e-bikes are not having an impact. Deaths have been rising for a while, perhaps they would have risen faster without e-bikes. Someone needs to do a study on this to find out instead of just panicking and banning everything.
Several is at least 5. I used the smallest possible value to give you the benefit of the doubt. smh.
First, that’s just incorrect, but even if it was then your use of it above was equally incorrect. Don’t know what your issue is but this conversation has gone far beyond usefulness.
“Just incorrect” unlike literally everything you’ve said in this conversation.