Britain’s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers – and unthinkable danger

unthinkable danger

This phrasing is so very telling of a moral panic.

Oh my God the way cops talk about ebikes here you'd think they had fentanyl in them or emitted Havana Syndrome rays. They must be a thousand times worse about it in the UK.

Oh good another alarmist panic article about how ebikes are a 'super duper danger apocalypse going to murder your child' level threat because they go 20mph or whatever.

That kid on a surron without pedals and a 8kw motor is not riding an ebike, its an offroad motorcycle, I wish politicians and the news would get that right for once.

Put the blame on the horrible companies (Uber Eats) and not on the drivers, that barely make enough money to live.

If you think e-bikes are unthinkably dangerous, wait until you hear about cars

If they go faster than the e-bike limit (which may be low, but that's the current law) they are defacto unregistered, probably unlicensed motorbikes on cycle paths, often driven recklessly, no need for new laws, just enforce the current ones. This will increase adoption of e-bikes and acoustic bikes as people will be safe using the infrastructure.

The horror, and yet cars that can do 200km/hr are legal

tHiNk oF tHE chILdREn

Paint some different colored lines on the roads, that'll fix it.

They just want ppl to get a loicense