If you ride on the road at night with no lights, regardless of the vehicle type, you’re gonna have a bad time, or make a bad time for someone else. No mention of whether or not they were wearing helmets, either. This story seems more like a chance to vilify e-bikes and/or e-bike laws, than to report facts.

I bet he did eat them.

It’s what you’d call a ‘target-rich environment’.

That just seems to be the Brisbane times sensationalising. Later in the article posted in the OP:

The committee recommended any device that did not meet the EN15194 standard for a legal e-bike with assistance cutting out at 25km/h should be defined as a motorbike, and riders would need a motorbike licence, registration, a VIN, CTP insurance, and only ride on roads, not paths.

Recommendation 19 says e-mobility devices for on-road use should align with the EN15194 standard – with a 25km/h limit and maximum 250-watt motor – and devices sold for private property only should be permanently marked.

The people interviewed in the article may not even be affected.

These just seem to be committee recommendations, too, and are nowhere near being a law. The 10km/h speed limit thing will go nowhere.

Do they, though? Following link in the article to here, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

The committee also recommended a two‑tiered regulatory system, drawing a sharp distinction between compliant low‑speed devices and high‑powered or modified machines.

Devices capable of travelling faster than 25km/h would be reclassified as a motorcycle or moped, requiring registration, compulsory third-party insurance, a licensed rider, and road-only use.

I’m not sure being better run is something you want in a fascist government. Give me incompetent fascists any day.

That wouldn’t be any less fascist.

And you just know that somewhere, somehow, Trump and his cronies are making massive amounts of money from this.

Why? Because he can.

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Nothing really to add here other than all I could think while reading that was [sigh] ‘What a wasteful way to use the world’s limited recources.’

Vietnam should have taught them that a military heavily reliant on complicated technology is extremely vulnerable to guerrilla tactics, knowledge of the terrain and fairly simple sabotage.

Dropping fighter jets into the ocean, apparently, and getting shot down by allies.

Surely the only reply to the ‘get gud’ mob is to tell them to post a video of them doing it or gtfo. If they can’t do it, they pay $1000 to charity.

I’m guessing the same shit she’s doing now, but on a global scale.

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It’s a comfort, however small, to know that despite his extreme wealth, he’s utterly miserable, and physically deteriorating before our eyes.

44 billion. 4 billion dollars is not a rounding error.

Maybe you should shut the fuck up then, Elon.

They don’t have to be perfect to not be murderous.