Me. I’ve seen too many kids nearly knocking people over, flying through busy intersections without looking, tearing around blind corners, and generally terrorizing my neighborhood. They’re the perfect combination of immature and fast.
How do they feel about electric scooters?
Meh, as long as they’re not blowing through intersections and almost causing accidents, they’re okay.
overlap between people who hate this and people who hate bikers in general.
Probably a very big overlap, but at least normal bicycles aren’t as efficient at facilitating teen idiocy.
Obviously irresponsible riding should be discouraged or penalized. But imagine the same people driving cars and you’ll see why we don’t want to discourage e-bikes.
Though the same people aren’t driving, because they’re well below the age of 16 and very clearly have no concept of rules of the road, right of way, and common sense
Some are, and the others may be soon, unless there are alternatives. Such as e-bikes.
And if they can’t, their parents may drive them around. Even if we assume their parents are safe drivers, this probably poses more of a public safety risk than a teen on an e-bike because of the inherent dangers of cars, or worse, SUVs and trucks.
Me. I’ve seen too many kids nearly knocking people over, flying through busy intersections without looking, tearing around blind corners, and generally terrorizing my neighborhood. They’re the perfect combination of immature and fast.
Meh, as long as they’re not blowing through intersections and almost causing accidents, they’re okay.
Probably a very big overlap, but at least normal bicycles aren’t as efficient at facilitating teen idiocy.
Obviously irresponsible riding should be discouraged or penalized. But imagine the same people driving cars and you’ll see why we don’t want to discourage e-bikes.
Though the same people aren’t driving, because they’re well below the age of 16 and very clearly have no concept of rules of the road, right of way, and common sense
Some are, and the others may be soon, unless there are alternatives. Such as e-bikes.
And if they can’t, their parents may drive them around. Even if we assume their parents are safe drivers, this probably poses more of a public safety risk than a teen on an e-bike because of the inherent dangers of cars, or worse, SUVs and trucks.