"Bikes are unsafe" says Mike of the Ford company, known for its "ChildCrusher (tm)" trucks.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Look.
Just because pedestrian deaths went up 70% between 2010 and 2021, much of which is attributed to light trucks, and just because trucks have gotten significantly larger and more geared towards NOT doing the things they were designed for, that doesn't mean Mike here is a clueless jackass who is also complicit in making life more unsafe for pedestrian-wait
I'd rather my kid cruise around on an e-bike than kill someone in it's Maibatsu Monstrosity.
How many kids does it get per gallon?
20mph
Omg this is so dangerous, I am so much safer with a 2 tons machine that goes 180mph and needs the driver to pass a exam that a monkey would pass.
I wish a monkey could pass the test, then maybe I'd be able to. I keep failing it because I'm disabled. That's why I need and love accessible infrastructure.
Also, it's not particularly hard to reach that speed on an acoustic bike.
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I think there's some merit to this, but:
-Saying teens should just ride regular bikes in a country that, for the most part, has shit cycling infrastructure and a car-centric culture that is hostile towards sharing the road with cyclists is a non-starter, unless you are also advocating for changing that.
-If you want to whine about how dangerous it is for teens to ride e-bikes that can go over 20mph then surely you would have a problem with the states that allow teens to drive vehicles that can go much faster than that and cause way more damage to those involved in an accident with them.
modified to go more than 20 mph
Pretty sure e-scooters can do that without modification already
auto execs get the wall
Regular bikes are good.
E-bikes are also good but not as much as mountain or road bikes.
I commute in my child crusher™ gigatruck that somehow has a worse mpg than if I were to chug diesel and walk the same distance by foot
ebikes are 'gay' or something idk
cars, dead pedestrians, unwalkable cities and communities, >42,000 deaths/year from car accidents in the US: freedom
threats to car manufacturers' net worth: danger
Okay, then change design and zoning to make bycicle transportation feasible for more people.
"we can't because biking isn't currently feasible for enough people." –local politicians
rinse, lather, repeat.
Oh man, when I was growing up, kids used to ride all sorts of weird things, like fucking gassed up go-karts. An e-bike would have been a relief.
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The only reason I ended up in the hospital from an ebike accident is because a fucking car hit me lol
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The sort of person this rhetoric appeals to doesn't even believe teens should be outside unsupervised in the first place. Electric bikes just encourage them to explore and learn about dangerous ideas like community.
How many children were killed by collisions with Ford vehicles last year?
Car accidents are famously a negligible cause of death amongst teenagers
Speaking as a curmudgeon, “Today’s Teens” will inevitably find a way to use any new technology for something stupid and dangerous, judging an invention by its misuse is the definition of bad faith.
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