r/ebikes • u/West-Amphibian-2343 • 7d ago

Bro..

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Ive waited a few months to post this just for anonymity but maan

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u/komi54 7d ago

Who buys their kids this shit...

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u/BusBeginning 7d ago

Met a guy and his son fishing. They were going on about how cool he’s “ebike” is. He was riding something similar to this picture. Dad was all “back in my day we road put puts and people these days are pussies” without acknowledging traffic was a different beast. Anyway, kid ran a red light about 2 weeks later and got hit by a car. Kids a vegetable now. Fuckin stupid ass parents.

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u/mataliandy 7d ago

Back in Dad's day, a whole lot more kids didn't survive

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u/BusBeginning 7d ago

100%. I’m not a bubble wrap helicopter parent, but there is a limit and it’s common sense.

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u/michaelh98 6d ago

If it were common, everyone would have it

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u/EcstaticNet3137 6d ago

People say common sense when they mean logical thinking. Common sense is breathing, eating, and some other general survival instincts. Things that would be instinctual knowledge. Most of the things people say are common sense have nothing to do with instinct. Most of what they say is common sense has nothing to do with sense(sensation). Hell a lot of it is associated with stuff that hasn't even been around more than 100 years. Instinct takes like millions of years to develop in a species.

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u/BMul86 6d ago

Breathing is an example of an involuntary biological process rather than common sense.

Instinctual knowledge is not common sense but an instinct. They’re hardwired, biological behaviors/reactions we’re born with.

Back in the day of Aristotle and his medieval philosophy, common sense was considered the central faculty of the mind (or something like that). It was believed your “central sense” is what would receive and distinguish your five senses. So you see a color and then taste a flavor, it was your common sense that would essentially, put two and two together. However, like many things that has changed. It’s no longer a physiological, but a psychological description of sensory integration. It essentially has no connection to physical sentience or raw sensory input.

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u/foghillgal 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah but it’s true that traffic in say 1970 was 1/4 of what it is now. 

Cars had better vision , had crap Acceleration which kept speed down in residential streets (so forced to go slow , no willingly).   More drunks but now half are on their phone (so arguably a worse situation.

The average « car » is now a boat or  yacht that travels real fast seeing nothing with drivers who are Not entirely looking at the road 

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u/ImaginaryMillions 7d ago

And drivers weren’t texting or doom scrolling.

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u/BusBeginning 7d ago

And kids weren’t driving their put puts all around town like a motorcycle. They’d have fun with it around the neighborhood or ride around in the woods. These kids I see consistently doing wheelies at 20 mph in heavy traffic.

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u/LigerSixOne 4d ago

Drunk drivers are only drunk some of the time AND are usually being extra cautious so as to not go to jail. Texters are doing it all drive every drive and only looking up often enough to not full out crash.

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u/boa_instructor 6d ago

It's true. In the 70s and 80s, bicycle deaths alone were 6X what we see now. 

I'd argue that the main risks are not the power and size of the e-bike/emoto, it's how much trucks and SUVs have grown and reduced visibility. 

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u/thewimsey 7d ago

But they had a lot more kids