Scooter Rider and Cyclist Are Killed in Head-On Crash on N.Y.C. Bridge

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How fast was that scooter going?

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I turn away three scooters and one eMoto on average per day. The scooters are designed to be marketed and not to be maintained. Most have mechanical brakes. Typically the rear brake cannot be adjusted correctly, ever, because the inside pad is blocked by the motor. Most have no rear stopping power.

 
The design of most scooters is malpractice. Here is a product that hurdles humans at the speed of hitting concrete as if jumping from a three story roof and it cannot be maintained by even a pro mechanic. People should take them to the meat counter of Whole Foods and deposit them for Bezos to deal with as they catch fire.



$379 and 1200W at 31 mph on Amazon: No training or practice needed. Legally blind, fine, lost licence, DUI, fine. The speed/velocity is that of dropping from a 9.76 meters, from a three story ladder into a cyclist. And is not including the cyclists kinetic force into the head-on collision.

 
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It's not really the speed capability of the mobility devices (some sports cars can easily exceed 200mph), it's the idiots that think they can go 50mph on a mixed use path with a 15mph speed limit. Common sense needed because if someone in a fast sports car does 200mph thru a residence area and kills a kid they will go to prison).
 
Chargeride said:
Head on crashes are weird.

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Head-off collisions are also bad when it goes through the windscreen. Joking aside, at least in the US cars and trucks must pass a 5 mph bumper safety test into a concrete wall with a test dummy. I would love to drive a car that looks exactly like a crash test car, whilst dressed as a crash dummy. But, what is weird is that bumpers are all different heights so a 1980's Honda Prelude might collide with a 2026 F-350 truck and go completely under it, removing the driver's head and the car's roof. That is the difference between theory and the real world.
 
At speed scooters are essentially straight line vehicles, if you tried to do an emergency evasion, like a quick flick of the bars as you can on a bike it would just throw you off. They of all machines should have been drastically speed limited. As for monos, they are just segways with one wheel. Anyone riding them around at speed is dead already, they just haven't caught up to their accident.
 
LandoftheGiants said:
At speed scooters are essentially straight line vehicles, if you tried to do an emergency evasion, like a quick flick of the bars as you can on a bike it would just throw you off. They of all machines should have been drastically speed limited. As for monos, they are just segways with one wheel. Anyone riding them around at speed is dead already, they just haven't caught up to their accident.
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Scooters have the physics of a pendulum. The weight with the heavy battery and 70 Kg of meat are in the long rear end of the pendulum. That mass tends to stay in motion when the brakes are applied. So, it pivots to the front around the frontal hinge. Instead of hanging a pendulum, try putting the pivot facing down on an incline with the mass at the higher side.
 
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