The title is a bit clickbait-y — they're not banning all kids from riding all ebikes. They're just setting an age limit (12 in one bill, 16 in another) and some

The title is a bit clickbait-y — they're not banning all kids from riding all ebikes. They're just setting an age limit (12 in one bill, 16 in another) and some other rules. The ER data is meaningless here — saying that adults are more likely to end up in the ER due to an ebike accident (and using data that goes back to 2017) is naive at best. Of course adults are more likely to end up in the ER from an ebike accident, since ebikes are mostly ridden by adults. They are pretty expensive, and in years past were even more expensive. Saying that 5-12 year olds don't make up that big a percent of ebike injuries is meaningless, since practically no 5 year olds are riding ebikes. The question is: what percent of ebike riders are kids, and how do they fare compared to other ebike riders. I would imagine that they make up a disproportionate share of ebike injuries, for the same reason that they make up a disproportionate share of car crashes. They are inexperienced and in some cases, very foolish. There is also a literal survivorship bias — older adults are the ones who didn't die from doing dumb stuff as kids.