4/28: BMW scooter

[Undertoad]

BMW is trying to address the safety problems of scooters and this is the item they're coming out with. Obviously they're trying to do what cars to and provide a safety zone where the rider is.

Of course, this won't be available in the US.

[russotto]

Originally posted by Tony Shepps


BMW is trying to address the safety problems of scooters and this is the item they're coming out with. Obviously they're trying to do what cars to and provide a safety zone where the rider is.

Of course, this won't be available in the US.

So what happens in a crosswind?

IMO, people in the 1st World have to become less risk-averse. Either that or while we're huddling in our super-safe cocoons, a bunch of people from developing nations are going to blast by us in nuclear-powered motorcycles and leave us in the dust. And I don't want to have to learn Swahili, Gujerati, Hindi, Russian, etc...

[richlevy]

Originally posted by russotto

So what happens in a crosswind?

IMO, people in the 1st World have to become less risk-averse. Either that or while we're huddling in our super-safe cocoons, a bunch of people from developing nations are going to blast by us in nuclear-powered motorcycles and leave us in the dust. And I don't want to have to learn Swahili, Gujerati, Hindi, Russian, etc...

When I was in high school, decades ago, I did a report on nuclear power and visited Peach Bottom. The PR person there went into a mild diatribe about how the US made them install containment vessels around reactors when the Russians didn't have to. He sounded annoyed at this. This was a few years before Three Mile Island and about a decade before Chernobyl.

Sometimes the US is too risk averse, but I personally would still prefer us to err on the side of caution.