[klodolph]

> Brady Gaulke, a 26-year-old Nashville man, was killed in a collision with an S.U.V. while riding a scooter. His grieving parents have launched a petition to ban the devices in Nashville. “[E]-scooters are unsafe at any speed [...]

I'm just going to take a moment to remark how impressive it is that automakers have achieved this, that the roads are owned by cars and collisions are framed to be the fault of whoever was not in the car that shouldn't be on the road. Cars were invented first, and then Jaywalking (as a crime) was invented second.

In theory, you should evaluate these programs (and other programs like helmet laws) against the risk posed by cars, but unfortunately, when people take bicycles or scooters instead of cars, it frees up space on the road for more cars.

I don't have a particular angle here, I wish we could redesign our cities to accommodate better modes of transportation but that's expensive and there's little political will for it.

[jseliger]

It's also amazing to read this piece in the same newspaper that has published perhaps thousands of articles about the (very real) threat of climate change.

The solution is to ban 30 pound scooters, which have zero point emissions, in favor of multi-ton cars, which carry around an entire internal-combustion rig, spewing CO2 out the entire way?

Talk about bizarre.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

> which have zero point emissions

It's better to be precise here: "whose contribution to emissions is an order of magnitude lower than cars."