Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons

Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by Simon_O_Rourke on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:22AM (#31467909)

> the objective here is to make money whatever-it-takes..

This. Definitely. However if it came to court, as indeed it might, and they tried to argue helmets cause risky behavior, it wouldn't take Johnny Cochrane to get them slapped with a massive fine and laughed out of court.

They're gambling that the cost of safely resolving the issue will be more than any legal costs. Talk about preventing risky behavior!

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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by Nextgrid on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:31AM (#31467995)

I very much doubt this service is sustainable so most likely this is just a stop-gap/desperate hack until they reach their "exit", whether yet another round of VC money, a buy-out by a bigger idiot or quietly shutting down.

I bet they all know this isn't viable and just hope this problem disappears before an accident actually happens and brings this in front of a court.

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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by indymike on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:42AM (#31468102)

This is what my lawyer would tell me is willful. And high risk.

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