HaraldvonBlauzahnBosch manager in interview: eBike over-motorization is a risk to our business, because eBikes with more than 800 Watt power will lead to much stricter regulations
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am once again asking the question: Why don’t cars have built-in speed regulators?
There’s constant chatter about the potential risks associated with the rise in e-bikes, but little to no mention of regulating the existing menace. You want to talk about excessive power? Look no further.
This one seems fairly obvious to me. People regard their cars as they would their homes and computers: personal space. They don’t like their personal space being regulated, even if they don’t intend to break the law. An analogy might be monitoring one’s internet traffic. Sure, I don’t intend to break any laws, but I still don’t like it. Any politician wading into this fight is going to get their asses handed to them in the next election.
Going in a car, you necessarily interact with others, what you do and how you do it clearly affects their safety, their personal space and you can even easily kill them with a single wrong movement of one hand or one foot.
That’s by definition clearly the realm where your personal freedom ends - the fundamental rights of others give it limits. And this is good so.
Going on a computer with internet access gives one the ability to exact enormous damage on the world at exponentially higher scale than anything one could do in a car. Should all computer use be actively monitored?