Comment by bdangubic
9 hours ago
E-Bikes and E-scooters and bunch of other modes of transportation have been recent addition and not only are they allowed (specifically E-Bikes) but you don’t need a license, they do not have to be registered and some can haul serious ass
The difference being that only one of those things routinely kills people.
E-bikes and e-scooters kill people daily, accidents on those things can mess people up and there are none of the safety mechanisms like crumple zones or seatbelts on a bike. If you search "e-bike deaths" you'll get hits.
Do they kill over a million people a year worldwide? How many orders of magnitude fewer people are killed by E-things?
OP's point was that if you invented something today that killed over a million people per year, it probably wouldn't be allowed, and I don't think that's really that controversial a statement.
Horse driven carriages also routinely killed people.
Humanity has always needed transport.