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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, speed is a killer. A doubling in speed represents a quadrupling of kinetic energy. So, while a 100 kg man-bike moving at 10mph (~16 kph) has (0.51004.444...^2) (0.5mV^2 for kinetic energy, m is mass in kg, V is velocity in m/s) 987 joules of energy, a 100 kg man-bike at 20 mph (0.51008.888...^2) has almost 4000 joules of energy.

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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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