LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoCalifornia Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About Itguessingheadlights.comexternal-linkmessage-square234fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About Itguessingheadlights.comLuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square234fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareforestbeasts@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoNo, what you’re doing is tying people’s speed to what their specific body can produce rather than what is safe. Those are two very different things.
minus-squareParagone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoNot what I meant: I’m tying power to the power that the bicyclist can naturally produce. I’m tying speed to licensing-level, because crash-energy goes up with the square of the speed. Physically-weak? THEN small-motor. Linebacker? THEN huge-motor. Speeds are tied to licensing. I’m not tying speed to body-force, I’m tying it to licensing-level/competence-carefulness. Don’t know how I fucked-up the communication so bad, but sorry. _ /\ _
No, what you’re doing is tying people’s speed to what their specific body can produce rather than what is safe. Those are two very different things.
Not what I meant:
I’m tying power to the power that the bicyclist can naturally produce.
I’m tying speed to licensing-level, because crash-energy goes up with the square of the speed.
Physically-weak? THEN small-motor.
Linebacker? THEN huge-motor.
Speeds are tied to licensing.
I’m not tying speed to body-force, I’m tying it to licensing-level/competence-carefulness.
Don’t know how I fucked-up the communication so bad, but sorry.
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