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tl;dr cost benefits aren't big enough. how are you going to enforce it? Just off the top of my head: They don't cost enough (like cars) to have a reasonable b
by kleer001 11y ago
tl;dr cost benefits aren't big enough. how are you going to enforce it?
Just off the top of my head:
They don't cost enough (like cars) to have a reasonable bottle neck on purchase.
A slogged DMV would never agree to add 4x the customers by adding bicycle licenses.
safety stats: 30,000 people were killed last year in the states in car related incidents. 700 people on bikes in same were killed in car related collisions. No one (as far as I find) is killed when they're hit by a bicycle.
- LyndsySimon 11y ago> They don't cost enough (like cars) to have a reasonable bottle neck on purchase. I'm not sure I agree with this one. A decent commuter bike is going to run ~$500 new, and one can easily spend $2.5k on a bike. Obviously that's not as expensive as a car, but a nice new bike is approximately as expensive as a beater car.
- kleer001 11y agoSure, that's a bottleneck, but that's not all bicycles. And those expensive bikes are what percent of the bikes on the road everyday? Less than 2% I bet. But there's no way to tell as far as I can figure.