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Bikes are considerably slower, especially when ridden by children and also obviously don't move under their own power on level ground. It's weird that people are in favor of giving children access to motor vehicles in this thread.
The term "motor vehicles" has long been used to refer exclusively to cars, trucks, and motorcycles. You can't extend this to electric-powered personal transport vehicles like bikes/scooters/skateboards/unicycles and keep the same scary connotations.
You don't think theres a significant difference between unpowered personal transport(or assisted power bikes) and those with electronic motors that move entirely on their own power?
Not risk wise. I think more people want to use them because they don't have to put in the physical effort. Which is good. But then with greater scale you see greater quantities of bad behavior. Cyclists are relatively rare in most US cities.
No I think there’s very little difference between unpowered personal transport and those with electronic motors allowing them to go 15 miles per hour, which at least here is what the scooters are limited to.
You don't think a kid can find a steep hill if they wanna go fast
Might've been bad wording on my part, wasn't sure what to call them![emoji obama-sad obama-sad](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9ab8cce9-577d-4e75-ba18-7f4e093fce3f.png)
E-bikes are not slower than e-scooters. In fact that’s my biggest complaint about the fact that my city only has scooter rentals and no bikes, the bikes can go faster and are way easier to ride.
I don't think doublepepperoni wasn't talking about e-bikes though, just regular rental bicycles. At least those are super common around here because they're subsidized by the city while I've barely ever seen a rental e-bike.