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That report is impressively vague about the cause and characteristic of these non-fatal injuries. The CPSC is obviously looking at this from a product safety le

That report is impressively vague about the cause and characteristic of these non-fatal injuries. The CPSC is obviously looking at this from a product safety lens, but that isn't necessarily the true picture from a holistic perspective. At least they're quite clear when it comes to the fatalities: >Collisions with motor vehicles were the leading cause of death associated with e-bikes >Motor vehicle accidents were the leading cause of death associated with e-scooters So is the potentially unsafe product we should be concerned about e-bikes and scooters? Or is it actually motor vehicles?

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The product we should be concerned with is the ebike operator In the quote below, the issues of loss of control, single bicycle accidents etc. all parallel the data found in the Hurt report on motorcycle accidents. Motorcycle riders were able to drop their accident and injury rate by better training of the rider. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9100098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9100098/ >Current research mainly analyzes injury-monitoring data. Studies have shown that 27.6% of fatal bicycle accidents in the Netherlands involved EB in 2017 [10]; in Israel, a total of 3686 hospitalized cases were related to EB during 2014–2019 and 84.92% oral and maxillofacial injuries were attributed to EB [11]; and in the United States, there were 130,000 ERTI cases from 2000 to 2017, accounting for 5.3% of the total number of injuries in the emergency department. Among them, 17% of EB caused serious injuries such as traumatic brain injury and internal hemorrhage [12]; in Switzerland, the incidence of ERTI is 17%, and the main causes of injuries are road skidding, riding too fast, and being unable to maintain balance [13]. Langford used GPS technology to analyze the safety behaviors of EB cyclists in a complex traffic environment. The results showed that violations of traffic lights and driving on motorways are high-frequency dangerous riding behaviors [14]. Haustein et al. conducted a questionnaire survey on EB users in Denmark, and the results showed that the riding attitude of cyclists has a significant impact on heavy ERTIs [15]. After analyzing the accident data recorded by the Swiss police in 2011 and 2012, Weber et al. found that ERTI was dominated by Single-Bicycle Crashes (SBCs) [16].
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The product we should be concerned with is the ebike operator In the quote below, the issues of loss of control, single bicycle accidents etc. all parallel the data found in the Hurt report on motorcycle accidents. Motorcycle riders were able to drop their accident and injury rate by better training of the rider. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9100098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9100098/ >Current research mainly analyzes injury-monitoring data. Studies have shown that 27.6% of fatal bicycle accidents in the Netherlands involved EB in 2017 [10]; in Israel, a total of 3686 hospitalized cases were related to EB during 2014–2019 and 84.92% oral and maxillofacial injuries were attributed to EB [11]; and in the United States, there were 130,000 ERTI cases from 2000 to 2017, accounting for 5.3% of the total number of injuries in the emergency department. Among them, 17% of EB caused serious injuries such as traumatic brain injury and internal hemorrhage [12]; in Switzerland, the incidence of ERTI is 17%, and the main causes of injuries are road skidding, riding too fast, and being unable to maintain balance [13]. Langford used GPS technology to analyze the safety behaviors of EB cyclists in a complex traffic environment. The results showed that violations of traffic lights and driving on motorways are high-frequency dangerous riding behaviors [14]. Haustein et al. conducted a questionnaire survey on EB users in Denmark, and the results showed that the riding attitude of cyclists has a significant impact on heavy ERTIs [15]. After analyzing the accident data recorded by the Swiss police in 2011 and 2012, Weber et al. found that ERTI was dominated by Single-Bicycle Crashes (SBCs) [16].

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