Re:The Electric Vehicles We Need Now Are E-Bikes
by margalabargala on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:00PM
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> I see people choosing ebikes over regular bicycles
Maybe this is a location dependent thing. I see you're in the Netherlands; I'm in the US. Among people here riding ebikes, they're not choosing ebikes over regular bicycles. They're choosing ebikes over cars. Regular bicycles were never an option for those people.
I agree that people on ebikes are more dangerous than people on regular bikes.
But they are so much less dangerous than the people in cars. Every car driver that becomes an ebike rider instead is an absolute improvement.
In a location like the Netherlands where cycling is so much more common, I can see how people could swap from a regular bicycle to an ebike, and that makes things worse.
Maybe this is a location dependent thing. I see you're in the Netherlands; I'm in the US. Among people here riding ebikes, they're not choosing ebikes over regular bicycles. They're choosing ebikes over cars. Regular bicycles were never an option for those people.
I agree that people on ebikes are more dangerous than people on regular bikes.
But they are so much less dangerous than the people in cars. Every car driver that becomes an ebike rider instead is an absolute improvement.
In a location like the Netherlands where cycling is so much more common, I can see how people could swap from a regular bicycle to an ebike, and that makes things worse.