I hate these things with a passion.
Where i live right now, when i go for a walk or a run. Kids will fly past me going about 30kph with no warning or no helmets either. There are these 2 girls that ride an electric scooter together and they blow past stop signs. Im very surprised that no one on these things has been killed on them yet. I also live on a busy road because its one of 2 entrances to get into my neighborhood.
no one on these things has been killed yet
So, about that…
Ya I love all these things personally. Quick to get around, and so fun!
But yes, what you said has been my experience but I’m generally in the middle of nowhere. When I go by people I say hello and move very slowly and leave a good amount if room.
I was walking to a commercial building a couple months ago and WOOSH! this kid on an e-scooter going down hill, from behind, top speed, passes within a foot of me. It was a huge walking path with nobody else on it. What if I reached in my pocket and he clipped my elbow? Or I turned suddenly? Kids just don’t have road sense for motorized vehicles in public.
between these things and like 5 e-bikes blowing up this past week in Toronto starting fires in buildings just do away with the lot. As someone who walks around Toronto it would make things a hell of a lot better.
10 deaths per year: we need to do something about regulating these and having a maximum speed. (To be clear, I think we should).
200 deaths per year from cars and trucks for 0-19: There’s nothing we can do!
To max out their speed you’d need a governor that applies the brakes automatically. This in itself can be very dangerous in many situations, such as when you’re going down a steep hill. I would imagine that’s also the situation children are most likely to get hurt.
You can also just have a governor that stops applying power. Like legal ebikes currently have.
Children have been launching themselves down steep hills since before electric devices.
Gravity supplies more than enough power to reach dangerous speeds even on unpowered devices. If all the governor did was remove applied power once walking speed was reached, that would be enough to get kids to the top of a hill without effort, and then they’d go rocketing down to their doom.
The danger of these scooters is that they’re scooters: they’re unstable and unsafe at speed. Bicycles are much more stable and thus safer at those same speeds.
Who’s killing them I wonder?
Often themselves. The focus of the article is overwhelmingly on children who were injured in without the involvement of another vehicle.
I have to admit, I’ve never ran across this issue in Quebec lmao. I take long walks on the regular, too, whether in the city or the suburbs.
Hearring Ontarian relatives complain about them felt hilariously surreal.
This seems like a headline from 5 years ago?
The big fad now is e-dirtbikes that can be easily modified to go licensed vehicle speeds.
You mean kids that don’t and can’t understand how to drive a motor vehicle shouldn’t be driving motor vehicles? Weird.
And there’s no safety equipment required?
There’s been a bunch of property damage around here by kids just crashing into things. I have witnessed kids firsthand ignoring their surroundings and having conversations and just smashing to parked cars. These things need some kind of legislation passed on them ASAP.
I have been saying the same thing about these four wheeled death contraptions.
You have people that have no place or understanding in how to operate a motor vehicle safely, or should have stopped operating said motor vehicles ages ago for one reason or a other.
Yes, motor vehicle testing requirements should be a lot stricter as well.
And public transit should be better.
But neither of those observations has anything at all to do with the massively increased injuries and zero liabilities from kids on these things.
