California is about to foolishly ruin e-bikes.

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

California is about to foolishly ruin e-bikes. The reasoning would be funny “peak power is the problem!” If it had no consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-C7TCMiAM&feature=youtu.be

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

“The one thing they (police chiefs) we’re talking about was e-bikes, not murder etc”

That sounds like they have flawed priorities, though, no? They aren’t concerned with, say—you know what this won’t work because acab so yeah, never mind.

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

These presentations are startlingly unserious.

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

This is such a strange spectacle. This law as proposed is pretty obviously flawed and foolish. More rigorously policing *legal* e-bikes as a response to illegal vehicles is a waste of effort at best.

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

This feels like a condemnation of physics education in the US

[steve@discuss.systems]

@griotspeak wait until they find out about peak power of cars and motorcycles

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

@steve Right? The whole pitch just… doesn’t hold up and I am frustrated that it is given this much consideration

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@steve @griotspeak But if they took out the “bike” limitation and applied it to •all• vehicles, they’d have my attention

[steve@discuss.systems]

@inthehands @griotspeak I want kinetic energy limits. Is that too much to ask for?

[steve@discuss.systems]

@inthehands @griotspeak Your SUV is allowed to go 25mph in a residential neighborhood? Ok, an eight year-old on an e-bike can go 200 something miles an hour. Fair's fair.

[steve@discuss.systems]

@inthehands @griotspeak (I'm sort of joking, because actual safety risks are a bit more complex than just kinetic energy, but I'm also sort of not joking).

[kurt@mastodon.nelson.fun]

@griotspeak and an example of the failure to PARENT.