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Re:Bird has raised $100M for electric scooter sharing by stefan_ on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:27PM (#16557092)
Don't forget about pedestrians. Helmets are like avoiding ECC RAM, soon you are giving them out on every level of abstraction because you don't want to face the fact that the danger comes from cars/memory with bit errors.

Fix the problem, styrofoam will not save you.

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Re:Bird has raised $100M for electric scooter sharing by r00fus on Saturday March 10, 2018 @12:27AM (#16557248)
Peds don't share roads like bikes. When I'm cruising on my road bike I'm literally feet away from cars while traveling at a decent clip like 15mph.

Pedestrians are on a sidewalk often with parked cars between them and the threat of tons of steel at velocity.

Scooters or anything going 15mph should not be on a sidewalk.

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Re:Bird has raised $100M for electric scooter sharing by stefan_ on Saturday March 10, 2018 @12:13PM (#16559260)
That's novel of you to try to solve this problem by "thinking", the true sign of a great programmer. Yet here we are and the statistics show plenty of head injuries for pedestrians, and the folly of your thought naturally.

Is there a word for this? Theorizesplaining?

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