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Its always the drivers faults in pedestrian accidents.
First you're wrong, as always it depends on the circumstance and second they are not "Pedestrians", they would be driving a vehicle be it a scooter or cycle.
And the wear and tear a bicycle puts on a road versus a 5,000-lb SUV are night and day. A Chevy Tahoe causes 59,500 times as much damage to a road than a fat man on a bike. So sure, charge a cyclist a tax of 0.0006 cents per year, or we can just round it to zero.
The additional wear and tear a bicycle puts on a road built to take car traffic is zero. But don't believe that stuff about SUVs; that's based on a formula about 4th power of axle weight, which is an approximation that has only been validated for heavy trucks. On a road meant to take heavy trucks, cars and SUVs are much closer than that chart suggests.
Since these can do 20-30mph I don't see a problem with this.
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A new bill in Trenton would require New Jerseyans to register electric bikes and electric scooters they own and pay insurance before they hit the road.
Fine, but will the law apply to everyone equally? When they catch an illegal riding an unregistered/uninsured scooter, what happens?
LOL, The same thing that happens when driving a car.
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