The City of Perth says it will suspend the hire of e-scooters from midday today, following the death of a 51-year-old pedestrian who was struck in the CBD by a hired e-scooter.
Which seems totally reasonable when new technology is involved in a death
When cars were a new technology that resulted in deaths, the response was kicking people out of their own streets and giving over the space exclusively to the death machines.
Sure that might be the case but we shouldn’t be basing our response now on how they responded over 100 years ago. If cars only began to appear a few years ago we’d be looking at a similar suspension.
A temporary suspension to give time for regulations to be made to minimise accidents and increase safety is a good idea. Hopefully they’ll be able to talk to the e-scooter companies to look at things like speed caps in pedestrian areas.
When cars were a new technology that resulted in deaths, the response was kicking people out of their own streets and giving over the space exclusively to the death machines.
Sure that might be the case but we shouldn’t be basing our response now on how they responded over 100 years ago. If cars only began to appear a few years ago we’d be looking at a similar suspension.
A temporary suspension to give time for regulations to be made to minimise accidents and increase safety is a good idea. Hopefully they’ll be able to talk to the e-scooter companies to look at things like speed caps in pedestrian areas.