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Revolutionary solutions like "everyone just get an e-bike" rarely turn out well. There are too many unknowns. Is your grandmother going to strap on a helmet and
by phendrenad2 3y ago
Revolutionary solutions like "everyone just get an e-bike" rarely turn out well. There are too many unknowns. Is your grandmother going to strap on a helmet and ride an e-bike? Are we going to be able to stop bike theft at that scale? Will we need to invent special snow plows to keep the bike lanes clear in winter? Will we have to deal with e-bike accidents? People riding e-bikes drunk? People getting heat exhaustion in summer? Will we have to deal with abandoned e-bikes clogging up the bike lanes? Will everything slow to a crawl because people will be contending for limited bike lock-up spaces?
Meanwhile, an autonomous vehicle, well we know how those will work: Exactly like bedrivered cars, but with a few differences. I like that vision of the future. Maybe once we have this incremental improvement, we can start thinking about further improvements.