So many kids ride electric bikes and scooters these days. They often ride right on the street. Can (or should) anything be done about that? If the government enacted a law prohibiting riding an electric bike or scooter on a public street how could the police enforce it? If the riders do something dangerous, like riding only on the back wheel while going at speed would they learn better by having an accident and scraping an arm or leg, or breaking a bone, than by receiving a citation? What about the danger they present to pedestrians, other cyclists and cars?
Who bought them the bike because they likely could not do it on their own? Their parents? I’ll bet the riders don’t have a job and earn their own money. Would I do the same things if I were their age and had an electric bike?
But wait – when I was a teen, as soon as I could, I got a license, got a job, earned my own money, bought my own gas and insurance. I fixed those cars myself. What happens these days when the electric bikes break? Who fixes it – the parents? My parents could not afford to buy me a car, or the gas, or the insurance. They did not pay my driver’s license or car registration fees – I did that.
