The law mentioned in the article isn’t doing what you are describing:
effectively lumps everything with a motor and two wheels into a single category, scrapping the widely accepted three-class system for regulating street-legal electric bicycles. That means pedal-assist e-bikes, throttle bikes, and high-powered e-moto-style machines are now treated the same under state law.
Most people support classifying electric motorcycles and gas-powered motorcycles the same, while keeping pedal assist in a category with regular pedal bicycles. But that’s not what this law is doing.
I know. And I still want it. Why? Because if people here don’t give a fuck about safety (neither theirs nor that of others), then at least we should force them to have the bare minimum to be accountable.
Would it be better if they did it in a different way? Probably, but I know this country, and I know people don’t give a fuck about other when they drive any vehicle, so yeah, give me this, make them pay an insurance and get a license. And fuck them all, because we can’t have good things here.
The law mentioned in the article isn’t doing what you are describing:
Most people support classifying electric motorcycles and gas-powered motorcycles the same, while keeping pedal assist in a category with regular pedal bicycles. But that’s not what this law is doing.
I know. And I still want it. Why? Because if people here don’t give a fuck about safety (neither theirs nor that of others), then at least we should force them to have the bare minimum to be accountable.
Would it be better if they did it in a different way? Probably, but I know this country, and I know people don’t give a fuck about other when they drive any vehicle, so yeah, give me this, make them pay an insurance and get a license. And fuck them all, because we can’t have good things here.
Almost like they’re cycles. Cycles with motors. Could call them “motorcycles” for short. And treat them as such.
(Agreeing with you in case it isn’t obvious with my sassy tone).