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Of course it's ridiculous to have 300kW car engines racing from light to light averaging 10mph in the city when someone on a bike can do that faster with 100W.
by stefan_ 3y ago
Of course it's ridiculous to have 300kW car engines racing from light to light averaging 10mph in the city when someone on a bike can do that faster with 100W.
- IMTDb 3y agoOnly if the lights are stopping the car but not the cyclist. If you apply regulations that are designed to favour one contestant, it's not longer a fair comparison.
- rented_mule 3y agoI walked to work for over a decade before I retired. I stopped at all the red lights and beat the cars most days. Bikes and pedestrians can go much faster than cars between lights when traffic is bad enough. Sure, there is favorable treatment (pedestrians get their own "roads" and bikes can drive between lanes), but there is no similar treatment that would make sense for cars because they are too big and insufficiently nimble.
- ornornor 3y agoIf anything, bicycles are very rarely (in some places, never) favoured over cars in urban planning/design.
- m463 3y ago300kw is peak power. I think teslas are pretty efficient: https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/22-tesla-model-3-performance-vs-rwd-consumption-real-driving-data-from-233-cars/ https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/22-tesla-m... A model 3 LR uses less than 100 watt hours to go 1 mile at 25mph I wonder how efficient bikes become at higher speeds with respect to drag coefficient (without a streamlined fairing)