Canconda

Sooo allowed to own property and run businesses? /s

So I just heard on the radio this morning that youth injures from scooters are up 60% over last year.

If you're saying the automotive industry is stymieing such statistics, than I fully agree. I think that incentive is a stronger argument than my other speculations.

However I do believe scooters need to be regulated more.

1. Speed limiters. I've seen people going 60kph, passing cars in the bike lane. With no helmet.

2. Mandatory insurance & licencing. But make it like fishing licenses where its relatively easy/cheap, you're informed of the rules, sign a contract you'll adhere to them, and then if you get caught without it or contravening it you're fined heavily.

3. Separate mixed use infrastructure. Nothing against bike lanes... but we need to separate cars and non-cars.

We use [injury rate / kms traveled] to obfuscate car injuries

1. Automotive lobbyists. That's why killing someone drunk driving a car is manslaughter not murder. Scooter lobbying is probably pennies to the dollar of automotive lobbying.

2. Scooters don't have odometers making data collection difficult. Similar vein, scooter accidents and injuries are less likely to be reported or linked back to scooters than to cars.

3. Given cars go significantly farther than scooters that likely makes the output number not very useful and possibly harmful from a marketing standpoint. 1/10,0000kms for cars vs 1/100kms for scooters is not appealing.

4. Scooters are still new. There probably isn't enough data yet. Right now a lot of scooter roll outs are in their pilot phase or recently completed it.

5. Scooter injuries have significantly more/different factors. I friend of mine needed elbow surgery because he lost balance due to a combination of wind, being tall, catching on a tree branch, losing control, side walk disrepair, and bad luck hitting his elbow on a concrete barrier. And he was sober.

I think the statistics are still cooking.

Yea I noticed this as well so I just switched to blocking people instead of responding. Like I'm not here to educate. If someone refutes what I'm saying with substance that's different. But 90% of the responses I get are vapid disagreements with a dash of gish gallop.

Silly take: I don't think anyone deserves the nobel peace prize for anything related to the utter failure, disgrace, and human atrocity that is the western-funded genocide of innocent Palestinians.

I'm sorry but absolutely mother-fuck every country in the world that is complicit in this. Fuck Canada. Fuck the USA. FUCK ISRAEL! Fuck them all.

We don't deserve to award, celebrate, or nominate anything.

That's the truth. Reconcile it.

Exactly lol. All commonwealths have an upper and lower house just like the USA. I believe their senates are appointed as well, though I have not verified that.

(the senate, primarily)

Fair point! In Canada our senate is appointed by the Prime Minister and the position is lifetime. They rarely reject bills from the lower house.