Soldato
Why on earth would rentals be legal but not privately owned? What's the reason or rational for that?
Why on earth would rentals be legal but not privately owned? What's the reason or rational for that?
TROs for cycle lanes and cycle tracks are updated, where required, to allow e-scooter use
yes ... even if I sometimes cycle with shorts/Tshirt helmet&gloves are always mandatory ... you've much less hesitation to take the brunt of the shock/crash on your hands.
Given the number of folk I see riding bicycles along the pavement in the city centre I can't see it being long before a pedestrian or rider is seriously injured or killed.
I think they're a great form (green, efficient, low cost) of transport but there are way too many idiots out there to blanket allow them without restrictions like licensing, testing before being allowed to ride them and police actually bothering to enforce the law preventing their use on the pavement.
I don't get the RNIB fears as I don't understand how they're any different to bicycles or electric cars. Similarly to visually unimpaired pedestrians, you can't blame the lack of sound as a reason as to why you should just be able to step out into the road away from a crossing.
E-scooters' UK speed limit 'shocks' blindness charity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53253194
Either the person being quoted isn't very bright or the journalist has taken some artistic licensing with the quotes as while they might expect a sedentary 4mph or something akin to walking speed, the rest of the country was expecting the useful 15mph to commute around town that we've got.
Blind people cant hear them coming. This was a problem with EVs and now they have to make a noise at low speed.
Completely forgetting that the operators can see people.
Blind people
That doesn't seem to stop them crashing in to much larger objects, like cars.
Blindness comes in many forms, many blind people have some vision, be that shapes or peripheral vision, they also have other aids such as dogs and guides. It would be vary rare for someone who is completely blind to be walking around on their own without support.
The argument doesn’t really stack up, especially when you add cyclists into the conversation. Just typical I don’t like anything electric or cycling related nonsense.
The noise makers in cars are as much for phone zombies going for their next Darwin Award than they are for people who have a disability.
You also know that most collisions involving a car and cyclist are the fault of the driver and not as you imply.