Originally Posted by
Moe Zhoost
By far, the most significant factor affecting the safety of an object is the user. Assigning inherent risk directly to the object is bad journalism.
If you actually watch the video he does blame the riders and their ability to access these bikes. I worry more about the relation of these to pedestrians and the negative impact its going to have with regular cyclists. These things allow inexperienced recreational cyclists to move at twice their normal speed with a bike at least 50% heavier then their regular bike. Where hitting a pedestrian at normal speeds with a normal bike the resulting force of the collision with an ebike is much higher making them a bigger danger since they also aren't constrained to the auto paths where pedestrians can be more wary of them but also anywhere a regular bike goes increasing the danger.