Electric bikes will be silent. [...] Riding one of these is even more dangerous than usual, because car drivers [...] won't [...] hear riders. Source? http://n

Electric bikes will be silent. [...] Riding one of these is even more dangerous than usual, because car drivers [...] won't [...] hear riders. Source? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453184 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453184 Only 35 of the 4,727 motorcycle drivers killed in 2007 were driving sport-touring [i.e. the quietest type] motorcycles.