I'm a pretty live-and-let-live person, but the ratio of individual benefit to negative externality of motorcycles with intentionally loud mufflers seems clearly in favor of tighter regulation
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Much more common to replace 30 mile commute or 300 mile car trip with motorcycle than bike (although I had a roommate who tried the former!) Bikes typically used as last mile of commute with eg BART.
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I have commuted on both motorcycles and bicycles (>20mi/day) but again, if you are banning a vehicle class on the basis of safety, shouldn't bicycles be on the block along with motorcycles? Put another way, if bicycles weren't "grandfathered" in, would we even allow them?
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Guns empirically make their owners more unsafe, mostly due to increased suicide effectiveness. Other self defense mechanisms like mace and pepper spray don't. Motorcycles do. I suspect bicycles don't due to observed behavior.
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But you're not addressing the issue here which is *why* the motorcycles are unsafe for their owners. Again, it's demonstrably the reduction in visibility and the other drivers. Data show this. Motorcycles absent cars don't have a 35x fatality rate.
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Guns absent depression probably don't have an increase in mortality either. The problem is we'll never get rid of cars, any more than we'll get rid of depression.
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I would have agreed with you two years ago on this. But given the rise of scooters, I don’t think it’s an impossibility that we will see that, on most streets, in urban centers.
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