New Jersey is set to pass a bill that requires electric bike and scooter owners to acquire a form of liability insurance that doesn’t really even exist. The industry-backed bill would create more obstacles to owning low-speed electric micromobility vehicles that have positively linked to less car usage and fewer carbon emissions. Which is to say this bill sucks and I hope it fails. (It probably won’t.) Other states are also considering bills that would make it harder to own an e-bike. I guess its cheaper than building protected infrastructure to make things safer for everyone on the road.
I’m absolutely not assuming that. Ignoring the fact that many of those things are directly under government purview, if we for some reason are hyper focused on some bureaucrat whose only role is to regulate e-bikes and nothing else, it’s still a bad idea to place restrictions on them. I feel like we’re talking in circles here. If your goal is to put people in more danger then go ahead and place restrictions on e-bikes. Otherwise do nothing. Those are the options and outcomes in this weird hypothetical. Not much else to say.