A newly filed bill in Florida is aiming to change the way the Sunshine State regulates high-speed electric bicycles. If…

  • artifex@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    The people around me (south Florida) who use e-bikes as their primary means of transportation are mostly poorer people of color who probably don’t even have a license. The people who use them for fun are mostly wealthier and white and do have licenses already. Draw what conclusions you will from that.

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      Yeah, seems like it would convince more people to get a gas powered scooters. They’re usually around $1000 and get like 85mpg. And because Florida laws, you aren’t required to wear a helmet. Although registration is usually like 7 dollars a year. No one is doing inspections for vehicle registration renewal or such there either, so you can buy kits to bore out the 49cc engine and make them go a bit faster as well. Age requirement is 16, haha. I remember going through all the information when I got my motorcycle license there back in 2008. Doesn’t appear they’ve changed anything with those. I remember I bought an AR-15 and a 600cc Yamaha that year… to be young and wrecklace again, good times. (I would have been 18/19, so not old enough to buy a pistol at the time yet)