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As a cyclist commuter, I've reached the point where I advocate requiring a license to operate any sort of motorized equipment in public roads. Too often I'll en
by steelframe 4y ago
As a cyclist commuter, I've reached the point where I advocate requiring a license to operate any sort of motorized equipment in public roads. Too often I'll encounter close unannounced passes on the right, salmoning, or just general complete baffoonery on the part of e-bike or scooter riders on the road. Silly stuff always used to happen before with skateboards or bicycles, but in general if you're out there using your own body power to move yourself around you're going to be less casual. With the advent of ubiquitous cheap lithium legs, I'm seeing more casual road users show up in greater numbers, only they are armed with motorized vehicles that can travel much faster than their operators know how to manage safely and responsibly.
I'd happily submit to training and licensing requirements for my bicycle if it means everyone else on the road with me, especially motorized vehicle operators, also have to go through the same process.
- fallingknife 4y agoNobody is breaking the rules because they don't know them
- MichaelCollins 4y agoHow do you explain Germany having stringent drivers licensing requirements, and Germans being skilled and generally lawful drives? Just a coincidence? Do you think Germans would be just as good at driving if they dropped all the licensing and education requirements? Seems farcical. Since advanced education and licensing requirement work for German car drivers, it should work for e-scooter and e-bike riders too. And for that matter, it should also work for American/etc car drivers too. If drivers' ed and the licensing tests for car driving in America weren't such a farce, our roads would be much safer.
- fallingknife 4y agoWhat's farcical is that you think so highly of credentials. You know what's stricter that German drivers licenses? College degrees. And they don't mean shit.
- froh 4y agoif you make driving too hard then people don't buy cars, at 16. what's next? walkable neighbourhoods and grocery shopping in some walking distance? greetings from Nuremberg, BY ;-)