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mondoman712 ,

Better road design and just having fewer cars would do a lot more than sensors.

mondoman712 ,

People would find some way to complain no matter what cars were chosen for the comparison, but the fact is cars have been getting bigger on average.

mondoman712 ,

👍 Well done. But we were talking about the cars in the picture.

mondoman712 ,

👏 Good job. Can you tell me what else is in the picture?

mondoman712 ,

In the US, but worldwide car companies push consumers towards larger vehicles because they are more profitable.

mondoman712 OP ,

Car companies want you to buy these larger, more profitable cars. They advertise them much more heavily and push you away from anything smaller.

mondoman712 ,

IIRC they changed the way they calculate the scores a few years ago, which generally increased the numbers you saw.

mondoman712 ,

Yeah way before. I had a bit of a look through some announcements and couldn't find it so I can't say exactly when.

mondoman712 OP ,

Why do you think escooters are terrible?

mondoman712 OP ,

There's a lack of infrastructure to accommodate rental scooters which cause the problems you mentioned. Having safe places to ride (i.e bike lanes) and designated places to park them would solve these issues. I could also argue that cars do all the same things.

Reducing demand for public transport is a good thing in a developed city. You want there to be more space for people that aren't going to choose micromobility, which is much cheaper for a city to provide more capacity for.

I'd be interested to see some research into your theory of ebikes replacing more car journeys and escooters replacing more public transport journeys.

I agree with your points on why ebikes are safer, but scooters are also more compact and therefore easier to transport and store when not riding, and the safety issue is really solved by having safe places to ride. Having the choice available is important because different people have different priorities and preferences.

mondoman712 OP ,

Bike rental in the Netherlands is great for certain uses but not for others. You can't use the OV-fiets as a tourist, and you generally have to take them back to where you got them from.

Docked systems are better, and you can remove most of the cost of the docks by doing the "dockless docks" where you just have to return them to designated areas. This can work for both bikes and scooters.

Companies like bird & lime take advantage of the lack of regulations, but there's clearly a demand. Cities can take advantage of this by regulating, providing infrastructure, and charging the companies to operate, things already done for cars.

mondoman712 OP ,

I'm sorry about your friend but ebikes are so much safer than cars.

mondoman712 OP ,

Because I guess pedaling is too hard for people that live in one of the flattest cities in the world.

Some people, yeah. They might have a longer distance to ride, they might have disability, or just not be that fit. There's no problem with that.

mondoman712 OP ,

New York's public transport is heavily focused on getting people in and out of Manhattan. If you're going between the other boroughs it can be very lacking. A bike can save you a lot of time in certain cases.

If you're not fit, an ebike is a great way to get started because it allows you to start cycling for your commute before you're at the fitness level needed.

mondoman712 OP ,

You could just delete your comment when you realise it isn't actually relevant, instead of just throwing the edit on at the end.

mondoman712 OP ,

God forbid people want to make their city better.

mondoman712 OP ,

Momentum is the biggest factor in the severity of the crash, and an ebike is never going to have as much momentum as a car. Severe incidents can happen with bikes and they should be sensibly regulated, but it is far less common than crashes involving cars.

mondoman712 OP ,

The term ebike generally refers to a bike with pedal assist, not an electric motorcycle. Pedal assist means you are still exercising and you can set the level of assist you want.

mondoman712 OP ,

Again, you're talking about something different. I'm talking about electric pedal assist bicycles (often called an ebike), not electric mopeds.

mondoman712 OP ,

IMO if you're riding a bike, even if it has pedal assist, you're not lazy.

But even if that is the case, what's wrong with that? Is it not better to have these "lazy" people on ebikes than in cars?

mondoman712 OP ,

You just described an alternative version of the well known trolley problem, which the post is referencing.

The answers to the problem from the philosophers is interesting.

mondoman712 OP ,

It's a meme

mondoman712 ,

Urbanisation is actually much higher in North America

mondoman712 ,

Beyond the fact that adding five more lanes would still leave you with a horribly inefficient transport system, you also ignore that externalities that you are exacerbating by doing so. You're displacing thousands more people, worsening the division of communities, creating a lot of noise and air pollution, increasing car dependency etc

mondoman712 ,

Your last paragraph is tangential to what I said. It doesn't disagree because it says something different. It's also oversimplified in some ways and just wrong in others.

mondoman712 ,

They wanted to move and use thier car

Did they though? To some extent, yes. But most people just want to get places and will take whichever mode makes the most sense for that journey, and what a city invests in will make that mode make more sense for more journeys. There is also a portion of journeys that just won't happen if they are too difficult.

mondoman712 ,

Just to be pedantic, the dumb car tunnels (or Loop), are the weird thing elon "invented" to "solve" traffic and reduce competition for his cars for urban transport. This eventually became one tunnel in LA to get between elon's house and office, and the dumb taxi tunnel in Las Vegas.

The hyperloop, where elon "invented" the vacuum train, is a separate thing that exists to distract from CAHSR, and elon didn't want to work on himself because "he's too busy", and not because it's effectively just a scam and won't work, and most of the companies that started up to develop it have since gone bust.

mondoman712 ,

It's deadly in Florida because people drive around the barriers at level crossings. That won't be a problem here because there won't be any level crossings.

mondoman712 OP ,

Do you have a source to back that up? Because I have one that says the opposite.

mondoman712 OP ,

Hard to comment on incentives without knowing what part of the world you're in, but yeah they're much cheaper than cars, less effort to use than standard bikes, and in cities can be the fastest way to get around a lot of the time.

mondoman712 OP ,

Which city? Because for most of the densest I'd say 30 mins would be way to bother with a car, and if you're actually living in the city you wouldn't even own a car but maybe taxi makes sense for some journeys.

mondoman712 OP ,

Yeah, wouldn't want those rule breaking drivers to hit any cyclists. Thankfully more cyclists means fewer drivers.

mondoman712 OP ,

For carrying a brick?

mondoman712 ,

He's a blue check. He gets paid for generating engagement.

mondoman712 ,

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/creator-ads-revenue-sharing

mondoman712 OP ,

Congestion pricing has worked elsewhere, what's different about New York?

mondoman712 OP ,

Driving in the city has an impact on city residents, and wasting people's time doesn't compensate those residents for that impact. The charge will help to fund the other measures that you mention.

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