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City of Perth to suspend e-scooter hire after pedestrian death (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which seems totally reasonable when new technology is involved in a death

When cars were a new technology that resulted in deaths, the response was kicking people out of their own streets and giving over the space exclusively to the death machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Sure that might be the case but we shouldn't be basing our response now on how they responded over 100 years ago. If cars only began to appear a few years ago we'd be looking at a similar suspension.

A temporary suspension to give time for regulations to be made to minimise accidents and increase safety is a good idea. Hopefully they'll be able to talk to the e-scooter companies to look at things like speed caps in pedestrian areas.