The New York Times published a pair of articles this weekend highlighting the rising number of deaths of cyclists riding electric bikes. However, in one of the most impressive feats of victim-blaming I’ve seen from the publication in some time, the NYT lays the onus on e-bikes instead of on the things killing their law abiding riders: cars.
@Princeali311 @buckykat bicycles and pedestrians got a long fine for decades before the invention of traffic laws
The first stop sign was literally a PR stunt from a car owner’s club