Originally Posted by
cat0020
There is an article about e-bike "eplosions" on the internet every single day; which one are you talking about? can you provide a specific link?
This is a common aspect of propaganda driven legislation and/or false assumptions made by people who don't understand statistics.
Article is paywalled. I was pointing out that the writer only fuels the hysteria by calling them "explosions" not fires.
much of NY has building wiring that is 100+ years old and when you have 3-5 ebikes charging in a basement, plugged into power strips, who knows what will happen. Especially left unattended.
Like the article on "Ebike collisions" it's pretty clear there's not much reporting there. Just a vague notion that more "laws" will solve everything.
I'm reminded of a quote from H. L:. Menken
"The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and clamoring to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”