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Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by kasey_junk on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:55PM (#16872766)
Pedestrians killed by cars is an order of magnitude higher than that.

They are presumably already using the sidewalks.

It doesn’t matter where you are relative to them, cars are dangerous.

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Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by DrScump on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:33PM (#16872919) 

  They are presumably already using the sidewalks.
The vast majority of pedestrians killed in auto collisions are in intersections or completely on roadways.
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Re:What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing by vkou on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:21AM (#16873310)
And if those pedestrians had to walk in narrow, unseparated lanes, between parked cars, and busy streets, instead of on the relative safety of the sidewalk, I would imagine that fatality rates would be much higher.
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