Electric buses have a battery from a probably reputable supplier, with a decent BMS.
Escooters often come from AliExpress.
There is a difference.
Also itâs not even a choice. Busses are not mass produced vehicles theyâre regulated individually made commercial vehicles, and when the bus manufacturers say âwere not building manual transmissions as of X dateâ, thatâs it. Itâs not happening anymore. Same with ABS, and now electric, unless you want to start manufacturing busses yourself, itâs not gonna be a choice by then.
Itâs insane to ban e-bikes though since most of those come from reputable sources who are internationally recognized bike manufacturers. The people who made my electric bike also make professional bicycles for Olympians. Pretty sure the battery is reliable and isnât going to explode.
My bike has fallen into a swimming pool while switched on (donât ask) and nothing happened. Literally it didnât even register anything had happened it just carried it on.
My bike has fallen into a swimming pool while switched on (donât ask)
Youâre not the boss of me. What happened?
Yours may be fine.
Barry Shitpeaâs ÂŁ100 dodgy 2000W temu special may not. And you canât expect a bus driver to inspect every bike to only let reputable brands on.
The problem is telling the difference between a good bike (noting that even Samsung screwed that up with the Note 7âŚ) and these: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/fire-brigade-calls-for-e-bike-battery-clampdown-after-london-man-suffers-life-changing-burns
Didnât see them banning powerbank or batteries from powertools, and both also allowed on plane.
One is allowed, one is straight out banned.
One is high up in the sky, one is on the land.
How is it better for those batteries to malfunction in the passenger compartment instead of the storage compartment of the plane? I donât understand that.
Aircraft typically have a limit of 100 or 160 watt-hours and require that the battery be separate or the whole device be small (think laptop sized) so that you can dump it in a fireproof bag.
An e-bike has a ~1kWh battery that is probably strapped or zip-tied in place and thereâs probably no serious firefighting equipment.
I think itâs worth considering banning that type of battery, but a whole category of vehicles? There could be good reasons to ban the whole category as well but then state that, instead of making up some shit about batteries.
No one has the time to check every escooter against a long list of battery supplier every time one wants to board.
Sure, but you can ban imports and make them illegal to own just like any other thing. You canât prevent all crime but thatâs no reason not to try.
Hey just wanted to let you know, Iâve read every single post in this community and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future every night before bed when I use lemmy to claw some precious time back from the eternal grind.
Thanks for posting.
Iâm glad youâre enjoying these. Iâll keep logging in to post greentexts until I forget.
People used to say the same about cellphones.
I remember one episode where a girl in the bus was texting and some old lady got up to tell her that âit will go into the engineâ. The old lady was terrified.
That reminds me of something.
Also on a bus. There was a group of girls on the bus and they were having a big loud argument about whether or not one of the group would receive a text from her partner or friend or whatever because âhow would the text know where they were, as the bus is movingâ.
Pretty much the first thing that needed to be solved when moving from 1-way pagers to 2-way phones. Pagers could just get a broadcast analog signal and determine themselves if they were the intended recipient. 2-way needed more bandwidth and a dedicated communication channel to a specific device, so broadcast wasnât feasible. Thus, phones would send a registration signal that a tower would pick up, and that specific tower would handle all communication to that phone. If another tower got the registration signal, communication would switch to that tower.
Interestingly enough, there was a period (for a fairly long time) that if you were travelling too fast, you could either a) not be able to register on a network, or b) overwhelm the network with registrations - part of the reason why phones had to be turned off on airplanes
My city bans bikes from buses because of the space they take up. Scooters and folding bikes are ok only if theyâre folded up small enough not to be obstructive.
The really shitty thing is that bikes are allowed on trains. But if the trains are unavailable and get replaced by a rail replacement busâŚbecause itâs a bus, you canât take your bike.
Most of the buses where I am have a bike rack attached to the exterior, Iâve definitely taken that for granted.
Iâve heard that they used to have those here. But that they took too long to put your bike onto, causing buses to fall behind schedule. So they got rid of them.
I was until now unaware that there were places where (non-folded) bikes were allowed on buses. On trams and trains sure, but buses have such limited space that I canât imagine a bike being transported in them.
My city has bike racks on the front of buses. Bikes can go on trains but not during peak commuting times.
Trains used to be the same here (with the exception that you could always take your bike on the train during peak hours in the non-peak direction, it was only peak direction that was banned), until they were trying to get people back on public transport after/late during the pandemic. Then they started allowing it even in peak hours, with some weird limitations like a maximum of 2 bikes per car, and only in the first or last car of the train.
A few years ago the same thing happened to me. There was someone who wasnât doing to good, on top of the station building on the next stop along throwing tiles and other things off. The operator got some replacement busses, that I couldnât get as I had my bike. So I just sat there with someone else who could get on as they had their dog. For about 4-5 hours. Sucked allot as I was tired, the dog was cute though.
in defense of the bus, the battery pack in the bus is likely heat shielded and isolated to prevent fires from being a massive risk.
Yeah and it is high quality and regularly inspected but if you bring random aliexpress chinesium scooter who knows what kinda shortcuts were used to get it under 300 dollars
