Recent content by tomdutchie

Yeah, made me very cautious as well. Fingerprint on a lock.. hope they have a solution for when riders are wearing gloves ;) [it's not new tech, even as loose lock possible, but pretty content with a key :) ]

True, but avoiding harm because mistakes people tend to make is also pretty important [see blindspot mirrors in trucks, maybe some adaption possible for passenger seats?] Not putting blame on anybody else but the one causing a collision, but there are maybe ways to avoid: from [better] education...

Yeah, dooring is a problem (mainly stupidity but also because of bad infra decisions). To avoid you need a pretty hard separation of parked cars/bike roads. Problem is that drivers have to look behind before crossing the bike path, about the same problem on right turns in intersections. A...

what i foun What I found interesting: "He added that there is also a New York City administrative regulation that says just about any contact between a car and a pedestrian and bicyclist is presumptively the driver’s fault." As this is also the rule in my country (NL), and put forward as one of...

Funny you think pedestrians are considered the scum, I think they are not: but we have our own place on the road. For sure (in "bigger cities") you, as a pedestrian, need to respect that, if you don't want to learn the dutch four-letter words :) Understand the hesitation of riding in cities, the...

Yeah, according to my knowledge still is 250W/25kmh/no trottle. Germany starting to enforce this stricter in smart bikes a couple of months ago (having to delete the 'us setting [20mph]' in the software: vanMoof/Cowboy etc.) The s-pedelecs here (NL) sometimes also allowed on the paths (in the...

Only if you call a bike with extra restrictions still a bike (and not the more regularly used '[speed] pedelec'): helmet, 16 years, licence, insurance, mirror and in many places having to drive at a moped- or car-lane. {and still, often the speed limit is then not 45; but lower}: Here (NL) the...

"Not just bike" is more an urban planning channel, with a host that is showing how urban planning makes a big impact on life, and that lots of countries/cities might overthink their priorities. [he lived in many] I think his approach is good in that he is enthusiastic about commuting/riding a...

Is that fact, a report supporting that, or just gut-feeling? [not claiming that seatbelts not increasing safety, but behaviour-wise?]

From a blogpost by an insurance company [Aliance], written in Dutch [and our perspective], so gonna translate/put highlights: - bike-helmets are made for <20kmh [13mph], so in collisions with cars useless/pretty overrated - bikers with helmets tend to have more accidents, not really sure why...

Now liberty is extended to keeping everybody safe? I really don't care if you want to risk your life, but I rather not want my (or anybody else's) life to be taken because you are not paying attention to traffic. Algorithm? It's just a camera with some extra software that is looking out for you...

isn't this more of a (slimmed-down version of) segway than a unicycle?

I fell into the trap to assume most is done in the same way nation/worldwide, where it certainly not ;). Also fed by a memory of a video of some guys arrested by bike police chilling in a starbukcs. Some googling showing NYC police on bikes...

Funny.. video of my hometown :) Yeah, can confirm that with 25kmh/16mph you are (in the city) almost constant on the left side, overtaking the non e-bikes [avg speed: 15kmh/10mph]: the bikes and the way we use them are made for transport, and to go faster would increase the effort put into it...

Those images are really disturbing: there are some crazy people living on this planet.. if the delivery guy would have a faster (e)bike, he might be in the different category