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I always thought they were a hazard to begin with because who’s going to bring a helmet to town just to ride one? Now you’ve got a bunch of people riding a powered unfamiliar vehicle without safety gear in a public place. And a lot of people ride them in bike lanes. Just no thought at all put into the program.
Better in the bike lanes than the side walk
Nah, they should go in the road. They're often much faster than bikers. Closer to traffic speed.
As opposed to riding them where? In my city it’s illegal to ride them on the sidewalk.
It’s more the point of riding them in traffic without a helmet. With a helmet, I agree they should be in the bike lane.
Yeah, effective transportation solutions require a lot of forethought and built out infrastructure, these just get thrown out into a city with a lot of pedestrian traffic and "good luck." Anybody who thinks these are a solution to a problem obviously never met a bike (which usually get taken better care of since they're personal property.)
A helmet might not always be safer apparently: https://www.cyclinguk.org/sites/default/files/document/2020/01/helmets-evidence_cuk_brf_0.pdf
I'll keep my mountains and mountains of ecidence FOR wearing a helmet than the equivalent of "trust me, Bro, I know someone who died and the doctor/emt told me if they hadn't worn a seat belt they would have lived but instead the belt snapped their neck" from a place I've never heard of that makes it clear they're trying to influence laws in their header.
That isn't even slightly what the parent commenter, or the actual legitimate study he cited, was claiming!
Frankly, you're the one spreading harmful misinformation by falsely insinuating that it was.
The actual point is that if you aren't legally allowed to ride without a helmet and you also can't or don't want to ride with one (for whatever reason), you might choose not to ride at all and end up driving instead. That's what's more dangerous (in terms of shortening overall live expectancy by getting less exercise) than riding without a helmet.
Why are you downvoting him? He's right!
Helmets are always safer on an individual basis, comparing riding with one vs. riding without one.
Helmets are not necessarily safer on a societal basis, comparing riding with one vs. more people choosing not to ride at all and being less healthy for it.
Everyone ought to wear a helmet, but the law shouldn't require it because it's better to ride without one than to drive a car instead. (Better both for the person making that choice, and everyone else due to the bandwagon effects of more people getting out of cars.)