gromike
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Scooter Rider and Cyclist Are Killed in Head-On Crash on N.Y.C. Bridge
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RunForTheHills
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How fast was that scooter going?
fooferdoggie
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way too fast it looks like. The cyclist's gearing shows he would not be going fast. The stupid scooter I bet, is fine.How fast was that scooter going?
Darth_Vado
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"The photos of the crash site appear to show a Teverun Blade GT Suit II+ e-scooter, billed on the company’s website as a “wolf in a suit” that can reach almost 53 m.p.h."
Don't know how fast he was going, but 50 mph for a stand up scooter is a bit absurd don't you think?
Don't know how fast he was going, but 50 mph for a stand up scooter is a bit absurd don't you think?
DaveMatthews
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Brutal...
And here we go in Burnaby B.C.
And here we go in Burnaby B.C.
fooferdoggie
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even worse on a monowheel
PedalUma
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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.
PedalUma
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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.
$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).
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PedalUma
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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.
Chargeride
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Ive read that page 4 times and still cant work out what its trying to say.
LandoftheGiants
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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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