• Windex007@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been hit by people on Escooters 3 times in the last 4 years.

    If you wanna add speed controls to cars fine, but I think the ones that cohabit the sidewalk that people are routinely driving drunk as fuck can absolutely stay speed locked.

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      10 months ago

      Where’s the guy that got hit by the vehicles on the right? Maybe there’s a reason that perspective isn’t being heard.

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        10 months ago

        if you want to add speed control to cars fine

        I’m literally not arguing against speed controls on cars. You can tell that by reading.

        I’m saying I ALSO appreciate the mechanisms on scooters helping to keep me, as a pedestrian safe.

        What is wrong with your brain that makes these mutually exclusive propositions?

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          10 months ago

          I never said they were mutually exclusive. I’m just saying everyone is sharing some bad experience with scooters but the other side of the coin has been silenced.

          Though I will say that I live in a city with plenty of scooter use and I can’t think of a time it’s been a major issue. Meanwhile cars and trucks threaten my life on a daily basis.