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It probably depends on the country you're in.

Not because destruction of property has a harsher punishment, but because in many car dependent countries, such as the United States, killing a person with your car has become so normalized and accepted as inevitable that there's very little investigation of it and punishment for it.

If you want to get away with murder, buy a car.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53856098-crash-course

Could even take that a step further and ask why we're emulating cars for electric mobility.

It’s a Trader Joe’s. Why do you need to drive to it in the first place?

Interesting! I've only gotten that low a handful of times. Definitely a bigger battery would be good if you're going that low on a regular basis.

Makes sense for seasonal and recreational riders. We both ride year round though almost daily for transportation.

As for discharging below 15%, Bosch's firmware is pretty smart about this. It keeps a reserve that's used for powering lights for a few hours after the assist cuts off.

> From what I can tell they use a cargo trailer for gear as well as extra batteries.

This is the main reason if you might ever buy multiple ebikes in your household, buy a drivetrain brand that has generic, swappable batteries that can work on all your ebikes. Buying batteries is expensive (~$1,000 for Bosch).

For example, some ebikes don't have swappable batteries (either they're integrated or are a no-name brand).

The Bosch Powerpack, on the other hand, is ubiquitous and swappable. If I'm going on a long trip, I steal the battery from my other ebike and bring it along (I have a Surly Big Easy cargo bike and a Trek Verve+ 2. My SO also has a Verve+ 2).

Another benefit on buying ebikes with the same powertrain manufacturer is the battery lock can be keyed alike. It simplifies a lot.

(Oh, one last thing! If you go with Bosch, you can get the battery locks keyed alike to Abus U locks.)

A good U lock for quick stops, and storing in a secure area overnight and at work does a lot to prevent most theft.

Additionally, renters/homeowners insurance. Just make sure it covers ebikes (some do not, like Travelers). Policies usually cover theft away from home.

Foldable bikes to bring in your home are also a solution if you do not have a safe place to secure your bike overnight.

Pickup trucks are no longer used for their original intended purpose. The vast majority of new trucks are simply masculine posturing driving an arms race that's literally killing people.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/the-hidden-danger...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/the-dange...

I love my ebike! Insanely practical.

> Anyone who allows the “Tesla autopilot” would think twice if they actually knew the quality of code that they are betting their lives on. It’s a dumpster fire.

Worse yet, other drivers, and especially vulnerable pedestrians and bicyclists, have no option to opt-out of Autopilot being tested on them, with potentially fatal results

Living in a US city that has no cars for personal transport

Car crashes are taken very seriously in The Netherlands. It's refreshing to hear investigation into systemic problems vs personal responsibility regarding crashes, common in many other countries (see link).

https://youtu.be/Ra_0DgnJ1uQ?t=209

Not to mention, with the mini led display, letterboxing will be indistinguishable from the bezel.

See also:

NotJustBikes https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0

Strong Towns https://www.strongtowns.org/

Many of these towers are also used for other equipment as well, and not abandoned.

It's also worth mentioning that big equipment like this isn't designed to be removed from towers, and not only would be expensive to remove, but extremely dangerous. It's a lot safer and cheaper to just leave it there, and mount additional equipment (cellular equipment, etc) elsewhere on the tower.

A lot of orgs use all AWS, with CloudFront for their CDN, which also has high outgoing bandwidth fees (cached or not)

No directions for people on bikes in Madison, WI makes this app still utterly useless for me.

Pre-restriction would have to disallow running javascript in that case. Otherwise an app could save data to localstorage, refresh the page programmatically (or wait for the user), and then transmit.

Even just basic hyperlinking would have to be heavily restricted.

For example...

1. Cross origin hyperlinks would have to be completely disabled 2. Same-origin URLs would need all url information (query params, path, etc) to remain completely client-side. The only thing transmitted to the server would be the base domain.

It's interesting to think about, at least.

> [...] directly in the browser. The video does not leave your local machine.

It would be cool if there were a special browser badge for a website that ensured uploaded content couldn't be transmitted to the server.

Something in the spirit of `Content-Security-Policy: connect-src 'none';` (not sure if that covers all edge cases though, I'm not super familiar with CSP)

If Microsoft's concern is default app hijacking by malicious players, why isn't there some sort of app-signing process to provide programs the better API?

Along with free APIs! (XML, though.)

https://www.aviationweather.gov/dataserver

Another one: https://www.windfinder.com

Windy does allow switching between different models, which can be helpful to roughly gauge probability. Definitely not perfect though. And some of the models are consistently inaccurate for specific locations in certain conditions in my experience.

windy.com is great for forecasts, but you have to be careful of the model used for certain sports. (For example, the NAM model can be more accurate for low wind gusts.)

In my spare time over the last couple weeks I've been building a PWA for paramotor pilots to better visualize winds aloft: https://ppg.report.

Wind modeling - especially for aviation - is really an interesting subject. The main API I use at ppg.report is https://rucsoundings.noaa.gov/, lots fun to learn about (CIN, CAPE, the historical "soundings" manually reported from aircraft and balloons, versus the modern ones automatically pulling data from commercial flights.)

Linux-based is also vulnerable

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-adv...

American traffic engineers' love for painted bicycle gutters is infuriating.

https://twitter.com/tomflood1/status/990927016617807872

My bet is the problem is related to the USB transfer. I've read about similar problems migrating data to Synology via USB. Don't remember where I read that, though...

Apple has been reportedly exploring the "extreme sports" market recently.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-26/apple-con...

Is Tempe/Phoenix any good for getting around without a car? All I know about is the sprawl and hostile road design.