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My point is that ebikes do not fit into existing city infrastructure. Ecars do, because they were designed to fit in exactly. They are exactly like cars except
by geophile 3y ago
My point is that ebikes do not fit into existing city infrastructure. Ecars do, because they were designed to fit in exactly. They are exactly like cars except for their energy source.
- lmm 3y agoEbikes, at least in the speed-limited form seen in most countries, are just as much "exactly like bikes except for their energy source". Indeed I'd say they fit far better into existing infrastructure than ecars do, because they don't need specialised chargers.
- geophile 3y agoI don't have the statistics handy. I think the issue turns on average speed. Not maximum possible speed, but average speed in practice. How do these averages compare? If the ebike is a lot faster, then I would expect the differences to cause problems, since both are traveling in the same lanes.
- lmm 3y ago> I think the issue turns on average speed. Not maximum possible speed, but average speed in practice. On what grounds? Since most collisions happen at junctions, I would think the biggest source of potential conflict would be differences in acceleration from a dead stop - but again that's a problem that exists in the same form (if anything, a more severe form) for ecars.