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If you care about safety, ride an e-bike

• gnabgib 2y ago
  Maybe you should check with nurses, emergency rooms, and healthcare. eBikes are second only to eScooters for injuries[0]. You're also far more likely to hurt other trail users. On roads, speed doesn't always save you against other motor-vehicles, if that were true sport bike riders would never be hit. Behaving in a way that other road-users don't expect also puts you at risk (where did that bike come from?!) [0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39042404/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39042404/
  • mslate 2y ago
    The study does not control for distance traveled. This is all hand-waving, to try and bolster the case for safer infrastructure for bicyclists (electric and not) which I of course also support.
• Abasyste 2y ago
  Edit: Does maxmautner.com not have prefers-color-scheme detection?
  • mslate 2y ago
    No, what's that?
    • Abasyste 2y ago
      It's when a website automatically detects the user's preferred color scheme and adjusts the color scheme, accordingly.
• not_your_vase 2y ago
  Also, make sure that you never use the bike-lanes, only the walkways. This helps increasing your own safety by magnitudes!