The ebike class 1/2/3 concept is stupid puritan nonsense driven by cyclist jealousy and serves only to limit the usefulness of ebikes as car replacements.

      • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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        So if bicycle = moped and moped = motorcycle, ebikes are capable of highway speeds. Do you think they should require driver's licenses?

        • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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          Cars should require extensive licenses, but nothing smaller. The best thing we can do to improve safety right now is decrease the number of cars on the road.

          • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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            I don't think you should be able to drive a motorcycle without a license (which should require taking a course and exam). They hit 140+mph and cannot brake as quickly as cars. Without knowing how to ride and to follow rules of the road, they are a life-threatening danger to other people.

          • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Big disagree on the "no licensing for motorcycles". When I took my motorcycle class, it was very terrifying seeing other students barely able to operate the light learner bikes, like 200cc suzukis. During our breaks, the worst riders in class always said how they wanted a big ole Harley or similar cruiser but had almost no aptitude for balance or control of the learner bike.

            Everyone in the class passed and it equated to a DMV road test and I am genuinely afraid for them on the road.

            I think motorcycle education should be more extensive. I think part of what makes motorcycling so dangerous(aside from the obvious wrecking balls that cars are), is inexperienced riders just falling down completely on their own and ending up very injured.

              • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                I intuitively feel that what the people that are opposed to drivers licenses are saying makes sense but yeah, libertarians. Extremism of any kind only works in an ideal world, I suppose.

                Why should surgeons have to be schooled? Just let them figure it out. Why should forklift drivers be licensed?

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I think driver's licenses serve more to give cops something to harass people over than they do to demonstrate any kind of competence.

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                • buckykat [none/use name]
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                  Casualties and "accidents" in cars aren't low, and driver's licenses don't help. If we want everyone to know some important safety information, just add it to the public school curriculum. The existence of driver's licenses is one of the smaller problems with cars existing, because in practice they mostly just serve as a way to force most people to carry photo ID with them everywhere and give cops one more thing to bother people about.

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