Originally Posted by
Metieval
As of now.... I can't seem to find a pedal assist E-bike Drunk accident that harmed someone in the news. Unlike 4 wheel car drunk drivers.
So either the people that can afford a 3-5 thousand dollar pedal assist bicycle are too smart to drink/ride, or people that are drunk enough to harm people are too drunk to ride on 2 wheels.
Not much of a student of probability, are you? Compare the numbers of cars and trucks on the road at any given time vs. the number of e-assist bikes and the number of years that each type of vehicle has been commonly found.
It's certainly possible to kill someone on a motorcycle by riding drunk--see
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/new...-7/3976342002/
I think having pedal assist up to 20 mph probably doesn't increase the risk to the public caused by drunk riding to anything especially significant, but there's no doubt the higher the MPH, the bigger the threat.