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Safety at a blistering speed of checks article 25 mph? Who in their right mind would design for safety if the thing can't even outpace a professional cyclist?

Jiejeing 4y ago
25mph is plenty fast for a car accident.
- TheRealPomax 4y ago
  Or a bike accident. Yeah it's going to hurt, you might even break some things, but for it to be any more than that would be the definition of a freak accident.
acdha 4y ago
25mph is where lethality starts to go up, but that doesn’t mean things going 24mph harmlessly bounce off of pedestrians (good news, you’re not dead. Bad news, you can’t work for long enough to go bankrupt). This still weighs a lot more than a cyclist does and it’s reasonable to say that there should be a safety bar to reduce serious injuries even if that’s a lot lower than a vehicle which can go 100mph.
witheld 4y ago
That’s not professional level I’d say most cyclists can sprint at 25+
- TheRealPomax 4y ago
  But only briefly, because they'd have to sprint, so I'm ignoring that part.
synicalx 4y ago
If it rolls at that speed, and the poorly QA'ed roof crumples in you could definitely end up with serious injuries or even die.
- TheRealPomax 4y ago
  Yeah, but the odds of the thing ever actually going top speed are basically zero. Even with a load in the back it's never in a million years reaching that speed.
Consultant32452 4y ago
If you think 25mph is safe, try smashing your face against a tree at 25mph. Or run as fast as you can face first into a brick wall. I bet you can't run 25mph.
- TheRealPomax 4y ago
  Why run? I've hit a brick wall going downhill on a bike. It hurts like hell, but it just hurt like hell. 25 mph is not enough to even guarantee a serious injury (even though it can lead to that, and yeah, in freak accidents can even kill you). However, this vehicles absolute top speed is 25 mph, unloaded. That's why I called out the top speed. It's not going to go 25 mph 99.99% of the time, it'll be going 10 or 15.

Jiejeing 4y ago

25mph is plenty fast for a car accident.

TheRealPomax 4y ago
Or a bike accident. Yeah it's going to hurt, you might even break some things, but for it to be any more than that would be the definition of a freak accident.

acdha 4y ago

25mph is where lethality starts to go up, but that doesn’t mean things going 24mph harmlessly bounce off of pedestrians (good news, you’re not dead. Bad news, you can’t work for long enough to go bankrupt). This still weighs a lot more than a cyclist does and it’s reasonable to say that there should be a safety bar to reduce serious injuries even if that’s a lot lower than a vehicle which can go 100mph.

witheld 4y ago

That’s not professional level I’d say most cyclists can sprint at 25+

TheRealPomax 4y ago
But only briefly, because they'd have to sprint, so I'm ignoring that part.

synicalx 4y ago

If it rolls at that speed, and the poorly QA'ed roof crumples in you could definitely end up with serious injuries or even die.

TheRealPomax 4y ago
Yeah, but the odds of the thing ever actually going top speed are basically zero. Even with a load in the back it's never in a million years reaching that speed.

Consultant32452 4y ago

If you think 25mph is safe, try smashing your face against a tree at 25mph. Or run as fast as you can face first into a brick wall. I bet you can't run 25mph.

TheRealPomax 4y ago
Why run? I've hit a brick wall going downhill on a bike. It hurts like hell, but it just hurt like hell. 25 mph is not enough to even guarantee a serious injury (even though it can lead to that, and yeah, in freak accidents can even kill you). However, this vehicles absolute top speed is 25 mph, unloaded. That's why I called out the top speed. It's not going to go 25 mph 99.99% of the time, it'll be going 10 or 15.