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Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by rwmj on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:23AM (#33753958)
That's nice, but the roads around here are not safe for bicycles of any sort (think pot-holed winding country lanes with lorries speeding at above the 40 mph limit). Until the government gets serious about lowering and enforcing speed limits and introducing cycling infrastructure, an electric car is necessary.
Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by iso1631 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:27AM (#33754000)
Do you think a plastic vehicle will fare any better in a collision with the average American SUV or truck?
Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by HNDV on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:31AM (#33754049)
At medium/higher speed collisions? no it wouldn't fare better. But at city street level collision? oh yeah it would fare a huge amount better actually. Not all collisions are the compact this metal box into a smaller cube type of collision.

At 30km/h and lower cyclists have a risk that simply does not exist for a vehicle like the ami and other cheap car like vehicles : being driven over. A car can kill a cyclist while driving as low as 1 kilometer per hour if the cyclist fell on the ground and the car is running the cyclist over. You can't "drive over" an ami. Unless you're driving a Monster Truck.

As a cyclist I am extremely paranoid about things like blind sides on larger vehicles because it takes very little to kill you. VERY. LITTLE.

Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by rwmj on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:28AM (#33754024)
This particular vehicle has no safety features, but an EV with some safety features is likely safer as well as being more visible.

I wish there was cycling infrastructure and lower speed limits, but that's not how it is now. I used to own an e-bike here and it wasn't very practical.

Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by Gordonjcp on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:00PM (#33755512)
Given that you can kill all the occupants of an American SUV by getting a fat person to take a good run up and kick the bumper hard, I'd say yes.

At anything above a walking pace shunt in a typical Yank Tank, your insides are mush.

Re:The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph t... by eduction on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:50AM (#33754243)
Makes me feel slightly less backward about still using imperial units in the US that you and the article both use mph (I’d have guessed km/h).

Is it just a speed thing, or is distance always in miles there? Do people use metric for everything else? (I’ve heard Brits quote their weight loss in stones which makes me feel positively progressive)

Update, Wikipedia:

“ Most of government, industry and commerce use metric units, but imperial units are officially used to specify journey distances, vehicle speeds and the sizes of returnable milk containers, beer and cider glasses, and fresh milk is often still sold in multiples of pints, with the metric equivalent also marked. Imperial units are also often used to describe body measurements and vehicle fuel economy. In schools, metric units are taught and used as the norm. ” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Ki...