• MeshPotato@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, and there are a lot of them on the road that are illegal because their power and speed exceed the legal limit.

    IMHO that doesn’t need to be the case. Just as it is with moat drugs like Cannabis. I’m advocating for legalisation of faster E-Scooters amd E-Bikes with the right legislation.

    • ZagorathOP
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      1 year ago

      Oh I see! Yeah I think that’s completely reasonable.

      I would actually start out by increasing the speed for ebikes up to 30 or 32 km/h. This would not be without precedent, since Americans use 20 mph the same way we use 25 km/h now, but 20 mph is closer to 32 km/h.

      But allowing scooters or ebikes at even higher speeds than that to be treated similarly to light motorbikes is a pretty good idea too. I think we’d need better infrastructure to support that though.