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Fans of electric scooters, electric bicycles, gyro wheels and other “means of individual mobility” (SIM) rejoice: the snow in the cities has finally melted and you can safely drive on dry asphalt! This means that all other residents of megacities, both motorists and pedestrians, now have to, as they say, “walk around and look around”. Drivers should watch out for frenzied electric bikers and electric scooters trying to get under the wheels of their cars, and pedestrians should dodge speeding SIM enthusiasts.
The author of these lines today, getting from the entrance to the car, and then from the parking lot to the office, has already been subjected to real attacks from these impetuous citizens three times. Twice he dodged scooters on yellow rented “bolides”, and once – from a “kamikaze” delivery man with an oriental face on an electric scooter.
In all three cases, the situation developed according to the same scenarios. The SIM pilot was traveling at high speed along a busy sidewalk almost in a straight line toward the main stream of people. He looks at you and does not turn to the right in the forehead! I, like many pedestrians at the time, was forced to jump out of the way of frenzied electric scooters, almost out from under their wheels!
And the fourth incident this morning was the observation of another rider on an electric scooter. He quickly drove out of the courtyard, strictly on a four-lane street, nearly “stuck” into the side of the bus on the opposite side of the road, barely maintaining control of his two-wheeled suicide vehicle, then calmly rolled between the rows of cars along the roadway.
This escapade, of course, was accompanied by the squeal of the brakes of three cars, the drivers of which managed to react and not to roll the insane electric scooter into the asphalt. Note: In the garden – early April only. We still have at least four months of scooter season ahead of us. If this public succeeds in this at the start, how many corpses and cripples as a result of such SIM driver behavior will we count by September of this year?
Okay, if a person on an electric scooter steers himself under the wheels of the car with his own hands. The driver, of course, after that will have a lot of unpleasant conversations with law enforcement officers, repair of “iron” and so on. Nevertheless, in this case, only the “blacksmith of his own happiness” suffers physically. But when a reckless “engine driver” hits a pedestrian or, God forbid, a child on the sidewalk, it is not he who has to suffer, but an absolutely random person.
And no traffic rules, which now seem to regulate the use of SIM, will not be able to prevent this. First of all, because there are practically no real ways to punish an electric bicycle or scooter driver who “messed up”. Well, who would believe that the police would look for scooters scattering pedestrians (myself included) on the sidewalks? And even if they find them, under what article of the Code of Administrative Offenses should they be held liable?!
Yes, electric scooter rental companies declare that, in compliance with traffic regulations, they have limited the “maximum speed” of their devices to 25 km/h.
Beautiful! But only an electric scooter, speeding at this speed under the control of an average citizen of about 80 kg, has the same energy as a weight of 65 kg falling from a height of 5 meters! Is there anyone who wants to get a similar projectile in the face on their way to work? No? And how about admiring how he flies into your young child on a walk? Also no? Foreign.
After all, traffic regulations and owners of scooter rental companies, as well as numerous SIM owners, consider this to be quite normal practice. And they stubbornly insist that individual electric transport is a wonderful environmentally friendly alternative to a passenger car. By the way, this is almost the main argument of SIM enthusiasts and their patrons in the leadership of megacities.
Serious? In this case, it’s just a belief: the parents of a child lying in the hospital, who miraculously survived an encounter with this individual transport, are unlikely to talk about the ecology of SIM cards… So maybe it’s it not in vain that Paris recently decided to ban the rental of electric scooters for the sake of citizens’ safety? No, I understand that in Russia we are “ourselves with a mustache” and the rotting French are not a decree for us …
But personally, from my own experience, I was again convinced that “electro-something-there” on the city sidewalk or on the roadway is dangerous and scary, both for others and for the SIM pilot himself. Even if the latter is firmly convinced that it is otherwise.
Fans of electric scooters, electric bicycles, gyro wheels and other “means of individual mobility” (SIM) rejoice: the snow in the cities has finally melted and you can safely drive on dry asphalt! This means that all other residents of megacities, both motorists and pedestrians, now have to, as they say, “walk around and look around”. Drivers should watch out for frenzied electric bikers and electric scooters trying to get under the wheels of their cars, and pedestrians should dodge speeding SIM enthusiasts.
The author of these lines today, getting from the entrance to the car, and then from the parking lot to the office, has already been subjected to real attacks from these impetuous citizens three times. Twice he dodged scooters on yellow rented “bolides”, and once – from a “kamikaze” delivery man with an oriental face on an electric scooter.
In all three cases, the situation developed according to the same scenarios. The SIM pilot was traveling at high speed along a busy sidewalk almost in a straight line toward the main stream of people. He looks at you and does not turn to the right in the forehead! I, like many pedestrians at the time, was forced to jump out of the way of frenzied electric scooters, almost out from under their wheels!
And the fourth incident this morning was the observation of another rider on an electric scooter. He quickly drove out of the courtyard, strictly on a four-lane street, nearly “stuck” into the side of the bus on the opposite side of the road, barely maintaining control of his two-wheeled suicide vehicle, then calmly rolled between the rows of cars along the roadway.
This escapade, of course, was accompanied by the squeal of the brakes of three cars, the drivers of which managed to react and not to roll the insane electric scooter into the asphalt. Note: In the garden – early April only. We still have at least four months of scooter season ahead of us. If this public succeeds in this at the start, how many corpses and cripples as a result of such SIM driver behavior will we count by September of this year?
Okay, if a person on an electric scooter steers himself under the wheels of the car with his own hands. The driver, of course, after that will have a lot of unpleasant conversations with law enforcement officers, repair of “iron” and so on. Nevertheless, in this case, only the “blacksmith of his own happiness” suffers physically. But when a reckless “engine driver” hits a pedestrian or, God forbid, a child on the sidewalk, it is not he who has to suffer, but an absolutely random person.
And no traffic rules, which now seem to regulate the use of SIM, will not be able to prevent this. First of all, because there are practically no real ways to punish an electric bicycle or scooter driver who “messed up”. Well, who would believe that the police would look for scooters scattering pedestrians (myself included) on the sidewalks? And even if they find them, under what article of the Code of Administrative Offenses should they be held liable?!
Yes, electric scooter rental companies declare that, in compliance with traffic regulations, they have limited the “maximum speed” of their devices to 25 km/h.
Beautiful! But only an electric scooter, speeding at this speed under the control of an average citizen of about 80 kg, has the same energy as a weight of 65 kilograms falling from a height of 5 meters! Is there anyone who wants to get a similar projectile in the face on their way to work? No? And how about admiring how he flies into your young child on a walk? Also no? Foreign.
After all, traffic regulations and owners of scooter rental companies, as well as numerous SIM owners, consider this to be quite normal practice. And they stubbornly insist that individual electric transport is a wonderful environmentally friendly alternative to a passenger car. By the way, this is almost the main argument of SIM enthusiasts and their patrons in the leadership of megacities.
Serious? In this case, it’s just a belief: the parents of a child lying in the hospital, who miraculously survived an encounter with this individual transport, are unlikely to talk about the ecology of the SIM card… So maybe is it not in vain that Paris recently decided to ban the rental of electric scooters for the sake of citizens’ safety? No, I understand that we in Russia are “ourselves with a mustache” and the rotting French are not a decree for us …
But personally, from my own experience, I was again convinced that “electro-something-there” on the city sidewalk or on the roadway is dangerous and scary, both for others and for the SIM pilot himself. Even if the latter is firmly convinced that it is otherwise.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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