Two-wheeled electric vehicles offer great speed and ease of use and could be a sword in the fight against greenhouse emissions. But health officials in San Diego question whether they are safe to use.
and has seen a lot of accidents linked to motorized scooters, which are commonly available on the street for rent.
“Basically at this point, they’re like motorcycles but they're not regulated in the same sense as motorcycles,” he said.To me, this subject is personal. Years ago, in San Diego, I was hit by a car while riding my bike to work. I suffered a traumatic brain injury and ended up in the Scripps Mercy trauma ward. It was three months before I was well enough to return to work.
The UCSD study on e-scooters describes those vehicles as inherently dangerous, combining “the size of a child’s push-scooter with the speed of an electric bicycle.”“The same as anything else. You have to take control of your own personal safety. And if they’re treated as a toy, then certainly they are not a safe modality,” she said.
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