Why pushback is growing against New Jersey’s crazy e-bike law
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Nate (opens in a new tab) via Mastodon
@michaelharley@infosec.exchange (opens in a new tab) Got a blog post I'm currently working on, and figured I'd be shameless enough to quote myself :
> If I gave my 11 year old brother the keys to my motorcycle and told him to take take it for a spin around the block, that would be a *"what in the heck are you doing"* scenario. At the same time, there's a lot of kids being given illegal[^illegalebikes] "ebikes" that can do similar speeds as my motorcycle, and when that goes wrong it ends up in the *"this is why ebikes are dangrous"* catagory of news reports (and likely statistics once those are eventually tracked).
I think the ebike issue is overblown, the biggest issue comes with ebikes too powerful for legal street use anyway. And I doubt regulation is going to change that, emoto riders are already breaking the law, further regulating the people already following the laws isn't going to change anything. IMO, under 20mph should = unregulated bicycle, over 20mph should = moped.
Nate (opens in a new tab) via Mastodon
Or, well, if I were a king for a day I'd probably just see small two wheeled vehicles completely de-regulated. But the bicycle/moped distinction seems like the most logical distinction based on our current laws.
Michael Harley (opens in a new tab) author via Mastodon
@nate (opens in a new tab) Yep, I'm good with all that. I think the biggest ting in my mind is lumping all ebikes together. The emotor cycle style ebikes that can go really fast is not the same as a class 1 ebike that will not go above 20 unassisted.
Looking forward to your blog post!