> a kill switch
The funny thing is that's what cars do to other people because we don't have enough monitoring.
My e-bike is limited to 20 because "safety". Your car should be to.
The funny thing is that's what cars do to other people because we don't have enough monitoring.
My e-bike is limited to 20 because "safety". Your car should be to.
I get up to multiples of that on a push bike every day. The kids that rip past me do too.
Despite what the other poster is saying, there's no law of physics that says speed can only be unlocked by licensing.
Everything else is simply a pedal assisted ride.
And a vehicle needs to offer pedal power to qualify for unlicensed use as an e-bike. Otherwise, it becomes a motorcycle and requires registration,
Absolutely. It's the first thing we fix on our 2-wheel transpos.
But cars kill tens of thousands every year. Speed limits and red lights being on the honor system isn't working. Luckily technology, like the little GPS tracker in the article, can fix it.
I am happy with our current government.
But reading history I have realized that the scariest thing that is is powerful governments.
Honor and trust work extremely well: anyone of us can create enormous caos if we want to but most of us don't so it doesn't happen.
Now what are your specific fears about speed limiters on cars?
The best solution to living in a place with bad people in it, if you can't get them to leave, is to move. There are plenty of places to live where people do obey traffic laws and cops do enforce the law.
What I don't like is people trying to punish me, a law-abiding responsible adult, for the misdeeds of others who are not.
You're not supposed to run red lights or exceed the speed limit. This should be enforced electronically. The machines are unbiased and more accurate than cops. Cheaper too.
Even if it's an empty intersection and I can clearly see that there is no traffic coming, and the stupid light is staying red for way too long simply because the local government can't be bothered to put in a smarter one?
> or exceed the speed limit.
Even if it's an empty limited access highway and the speed limit is set too low because whatever government runs the road can't be bothered to update it to reflect the current circumstances?
Sure, if a cop catches me (or a monitoring camera does) doing these things, I get a ticket and have to pay a fine. But that just reinforces the point that traffic laws are way more about revenue for municipalities than they are about actual safety. If they were about actual safety, then I wouldn't get a ticket for violating the letter of a traffic law when there was negligible risk of actual harm.
You seem to believe that just because some people put a law in place, it must be the best possible tradeoff among various competing factors. All human history shows that such a belief is false.
By all means fine me for going through the red light, then allow me to explain to the judge the mitigating reasons (carrying a heart attack patient etc)
So the outrage and over-reactive legislation put on electric bicycles or electric scooters is quite insane in comparison. Max 15 mph on an electric bike, no limits on a car in the city..
Speak for yourself. I don't need a nanny monitor in my car to drive safely. Nor do the vast majority of drivers. There are about 150 billion cars in the world. Only a very tiny fraction of them kill people. And punishing all the people who do drive responsibly because of the mistakes of the tiny fraction of drivers who don't is getting things backwards. The consequences should be on the people who do kill others with their cars, not on the people who don't.
This is wrong by ~100x.
"There are about 1.475 billion vehicles on Earth in 2024.": https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2021/06/how-many-cars-are-the...
Complain about power wheels, because you’re comparing two things that have nothing to do with each other.