The collision was catastrophic. Jane Ouartsi suffered a fractured collarbone, two spinal fractures, a broken femur that took three operations to fix, and she had to learn to walk again like a baby. Why has no one taken responsibility for her life-changing injuries?
That all sounds like theft protection kinda stuff. If lime doesn’t want to protect their stuff who are we to care?
You can also just buy an ebike and use it just the same so why would restrictive regulation on lime make a difference there?
If someone steals your car and wipes out a family, you are not guilty of murder.
I don’t really agree - theft prevention is one thing but I’d argue that if they have permission to rent their bikes out in unmanned public space locations then they have a duty of care to the population of that area to make sure their bikes are not mis-used.
Your point about personal e-bikes isn’t really directly equivalent simply because of the additional expense involved - if you send a lot of money on one then you are less likely to be quite so irresponsible. The financial punishment for misuing a Lime bike is negligible.
Honestly I want to see significantly more regulation surrounding these things in general. They are becoming a real issue.
Haven’t really seen any problems from ebikes tbh. They seem great as an option for elderly or disabled people to get around, especially the 3 wheeled ones. Not so fond of the unregistered electric motorcycles going down the bike path though.
Thats more what i mean, even the lime ones are absurdly fast, not like a lightly assisted e-bike. And the electric motorbikes are being ridden where pedestrians walk, often incredibly dangerously
I highly doubt the lime ones are. The speed limit does only apply to motor assist though, if you can pedal hard enough you can go as fast as you like.
Especially on short bursts you can easily cycle over 20mph, probably 30. With a long hill helping you could even exceed 40.