- 11 Feb 2023 20:29
#15264559
I am a big, big fan of Chris Hayes. He used to do a half hour show on MSNBC that was freaking brilliant. He made everyone else look like they were stuck in slomo.. Seriously.
I'm also a big, big, huge fan of ebikes. Did I mention big? They are going to change the world, accomplishing things like fighting climate change are almost incidental.
So put the two together, and I'm a happy camper.
So... here's Chris and the RadPower guy talking about ebikes:
"So one thing I’ll say, so the pedal-assist is really a cool feeling. It feels like how I imagined the future would feel if you had like a robotic suit or like a jetpack because you’re doing the thing, but you’re just getting this energy from somewhere that’s not your body, but you’re also doing it. So it does have this kind of very cool superpower feeling or like bionic man feeling when you’re pedaling.Chris Hayes: So there’s two ways that I think about this. So one was Copenhagen was really a revelation. You know, Copenhagen is sort of famously next to Amsterdam, probably the best biking city in the world, at least some sort of design perspective.
And what you have in Copenhagen that you don’t have in any American city, even good biking cities, is there’s three levels. There’s a pedestrian sidewalk. There’s a biking lane, and the biking lane is at a different grade than the pedestrian sidewalks. You are separated, like, physically. And then there’s a car area which is on yet another grade.
And New York City, like the stat I heard recently was, in areas where protected bike lanes were installed, the accident rate for all road users, so that’s car drivers included, decreased 40 to 50 percent. So it’s a really actionable tool that a lot of cities are doing. So shoutout to the local city transportation agencies that are driving this change, because it’s not being driven as hard at the national level as it is at the city level. We’re seeing real gains.
Mike Radenbaugh: I mentioned there’s always something new driving adoption each year, and so the pandemic, the rising cost of living, having more selection, consumers' increased focus on sustainable transportation, it’s all these things continue to come, and ridership continues to grow for net-new reasons every year. So that’s why I think this has never been a boom-and-bust kind of business or category is there is incredible product market fit."
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/why ... t-n1302864
I'm also a big, big, huge fan of ebikes. Did I mention big? They are going to change the world, accomplishing things like fighting climate change are almost incidental.
So put the two together, and I'm a happy camper.
So... here's Chris and the RadPower guy talking about ebikes:
"So one thing I’ll say, so the pedal-assist is really a cool feeling. It feels like how I imagined the future would feel if you had like a robotic suit or like a jetpack because you’re doing the thing, but you’re just getting this energy from somewhere that’s not your body, but you’re also doing it. So it does have this kind of very cool superpower feeling or like bionic man feeling when you’re pedaling.Chris Hayes: So there’s two ways that I think about this. So one was Copenhagen was really a revelation. You know, Copenhagen is sort of famously next to Amsterdam, probably the best biking city in the world, at least some sort of design perspective.
And what you have in Copenhagen that you don’t have in any American city, even good biking cities, is there’s three levels. There’s a pedestrian sidewalk. There’s a biking lane, and the biking lane is at a different grade than the pedestrian sidewalks. You are separated, like, physically. And then there’s a car area which is on yet another grade.
And New York City, like the stat I heard recently was, in areas where protected bike lanes were installed, the accident rate for all road users, so that’s car drivers included, decreased 40 to 50 percent. So it’s a really actionable tool that a lot of cities are doing. So shoutout to the local city transportation agencies that are driving this change, because it’s not being driven as hard at the national level as it is at the city level. We’re seeing real gains.
Mike Radenbaugh: I mentioned there’s always something new driving adoption each year, and so the pandemic, the rising cost of living, having more selection, consumers' increased focus on sustainable transportation, it’s all these things continue to come, and ridership continues to grow for net-new reasons every year. So that’s why I think this has never been a boom-and-bust kind of business or category is there is incredible product market fit."
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/why ... t-n1302864
Facts have a well known liberal bias
Man, you come off as such a standard American liberal. Sorry if I'm offending. Anyway, to the point.
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