File this lawsuit news under things that anyone with a history degree could have predicted: The suit alleges that e-scooter companies knew their riders were injuring pedestrians and –– by failing to stop the collisions from occurring –– assisted and encouraged scooter riders as they committed “assaults.” The suit also states that both companies’ scooters … Continue reading Scooter Companies Charged With ‘Gross Negligence’
Well I have to say I was wrong twelve years ago about diesel motorcycles. No matter how patient I was for those Kawasaki to arrive, in the back of my head it was clear that hackers around me loved the zero-power-curve of electric bikes more than the long-distance of diesel. At one point many years … Continue reading Harley-Davidson Moves Research to Northern California
The “carriage” form-factor is ancient. So even though today we say “car” instead of carriage, we should know that to augment a single person’s travel with a giant opulent box is primitive thinking, and obviously doesn’t scale well to meet modern transit needs. Study after study by design experts have shown us how illogical it … Continue reading Cars Are Just Primitive Aristocratic Exoskeletons
Dan Lyke asked me a good question today, in response to my Jeep of Death blog post and tweets about patching: So yay for sharing, but we shouldn’t normalize getting your car patches from random Internet users. On the one hand it would be easy to agree with Dan’s point. Randomness sounds scary and untrustworthy. … Continue reading We Need a Digital Right to Repair