Walkers are major losers as well….
Difficult not to feel bicyclists have lost badly, as glorified motorcycles and souped up e-scooters intrude into Parks and colonize bike lanes. And no enforcement. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/nyregion/electric-scooters-bikes-new-york.html
Wish there was some way of achieving safety with these new scooters.
Thanks for your discussion on this. I don’t understand why, despite all the high-tech mobility we have (e.g. self-driving cars, airbags, drones, &c), that we can’t engineer bikes & scooters to be as safe as cars.
This is has nice summaries of the pedestrian and cycling education in (northern) Europe
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7934224
Vaclav Smil
Abstract:
Some technical advances are delayed by either a failure of imagination or a concatenation of obstructive circumstances. I can think of no better example of both of these than the bicycle. . Two centuries ago, on 12 June 1817 in Mannheim, Karl Drais, a forester in Germany’s grand duchy of Baden, demonstrated for the first time his Laufmaschine (“running machine”), later also known as a draisine or hobby-horse. ….
Revel’s mopeds find a role during pandemic, but safety issues emerge – CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/tech/revel-moped-safety/index.html
Revel Suspends Scooter Service in N.Y.C. After Two Deaths – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/nyregion/revel-scooters-death-nyc.html
