sysgen [none/use name,they/them]

I’m not opposing the research, I’m opposing the implementation. Spending trillions of dollars because >1% of the population would be inconvenienced as you showed by having to use less developed or more expensive alternative is stupid.

Investing trillions of dollars into dead ends is, however, the enemy of progress. The ressources we’re throwing at replacing existing cars with EV cars would be enough to implement better solutions.

Yes! And you know what, at that point, given the size of a minimum viable car, we could use some kind of algorithm to match people that are going similar places, and put them together to be more efficient. And I bet we’d find that a lot of the large scale transit patterns are common large parts of the population, so we could even use some kind of segregated, higher speed, more frequent vehicle for that.

While we’re at it, we might as well just warehouse some of these vehicles around places where the common cores end and start, and then we would only have to match one end of the trip.

Oh wait, we already have those in operation in China: https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=wvNOTZZeYVs

There is another Nazi symbol there, the Sonnenrad.

The goal is that now that they’ve been caught pirating lyrics, they have to pay MusixMatch for their lyrics, perhaps on a per request basis, so they lose money by making it available.

Abaya and the male equivalents are mostly adaptations to arid, sunny climates and predate Islam.

Well what more can you do? The law enables enforcement, the enforcement is easy, what else is there to do?

Yep, but it is teenagers doing stupid things levels of effort, though.

It’s already legislated to be illegal. The fact that it doesn’t look like a bike means it’s easy for the law to be enforced - if it doesn’t have plates and looks like a bike and certainly if it’s going fast that’s easy enforcement. All that’s missing is the pressure to get useless cops to do their jobs, but that’s a solvable problem.

I know many of those, like the original surron, but they look like motorcycles and scooters, not bicycles. It’s not impossible to make normal ebike-looking components go at that speed, but it will severely limit their lifespan or outright destroy them and you’re still going to need an expensive large battery to make it work, so I’d be surprised.

There’s the Bafang Ultra motor that can be hacked to do that (using a laptop and a special cable and shady exes from forums) but last I checked it will overheat and destroy itself without physically opening it and tweaking the thermals if you push it to those numbers. It’s not easy to make a motor that can go at that speed and put out that much power and still fit in a normal bike frame.

Can you give me an example? I built my own ebike so I’m familiar with the componentry, going something like 40mph (ripping past 30mph) requires a serious battery and a very expensive motor. You can’t just modify a normal legal ebike to go that fast, the motor will overheat and the battery won’t last 20 minutes on a charge or long in general.

Also, nothing that can go past 28mph is considered an ebike in the US. The moment it goes any faster it’s an unplated scooter/motorcycle

50km/h for a short amount of time is far from unusual for most cyclists. The fastest cyclists can do 90km/h in a burst which requires ~5x more effort than going 50km/h.

Most people with a little training can do ~1200W which is enough to get to those speeds with a good position on a well adjusted bike.

Those are already legally considered motorcycles and since they look exactly like motorcycles the law often ends up getting enforced (cops don’t like unplated motorcycles). In fact I just saw one of them get impounded yesterday.

They’re not comparable. Average ebikes can’t really go any faster than a fit rider on a good road bike.

I can easily go 50km/h on flat ground for a short amount of time in a mountain bike if I want to and I’m almost obese - an ebike that can go appreciably faster than that for more than 10 minutes is very expensive and very much looks like a motorcycle.

That’s already exactly how it works. The guy is just mad that people can have light electric motor vehicles for little money.

I wonder why he isn’t. It’s not like he can evade trial for it where he is now.

Well we haven’t learned after have a dozen unprovoked wars in the Middle East and North Africa so why would one more help?