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Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations [California] (bikeeastbay.org)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net to c/bayarea@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34367979

More barriers to cycling means more cars which means more dead cyclists/pedestrians. Help us defeat this terrible anti-safety bill.

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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

For velocity you want kinetic energy .5(mass*V^2)

That’s why braking distance scales exponentially with velocity. 30 vs 20 mph is over twice the energy at the same mass.