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Ah the micro mobility sub lol. Where all they do is cry and bitch

Enough of these fucking e bikes and scooters

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They didn't even manage to be cheaper

Nah I know myself- I’m a petite woman- who the fuck am I gonna fight? I’m running after I curse someone out.

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time for it to Go

We absolutely should be preventing the sale of unsafe batteries in the city and the US in general. The fact that the industry is completely unregulated is abhorrent.

I can’t believe the amount of effort that goes into preventing the import of, say, 20-year-old cars vs the amount that goes into preventing the import of unsafe electric transportation.

Not pedestrians, for sure.

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Strange how many such articles one can find for something you claim is so unusual.

The vast majority of batteries in phones/laptops are safe and comply with various mandatory and elective safety standards. The e-bikes most commonly purchased do too. But many people buy cheaper batteries or run more amperage through them than is sound, and you get bad results.

There are plenty of incidents with “thermal runaways” in consumer batteries too — next time you’re on a plane, pay attention to the new addition to the safety briefing about not retrieving your phone if it falls into the seat. That warning is because of what happens if you crush a phone (it’s a battery fire)

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Honestly Im curious too. Is it just really cheap and unsafe batteries from China causing these explosions or what?

Lol!! You funny

Quite original.

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We get it, the Post is the only news that writes at your reading level

Cheap Chinese batteries that skip any sort of safety precautions they can to sell cheap garbage. They pass the savings on to consumers who then mishandle/modify them beyond their intended purpose and then you get shit like this happening.

Id imagine because amount of battery power required to propel a bike to 30 mph is significantly more than needed to power a vape pen

If there’s no elevator, it may not have been feasible. I used to work there in the design office. Believe me, they have studied accessibility compliance for every single station.

Victim blame much? The attackers were the ones that started with a verbal altercation.

Show me the NYCCars sub or an offline group of car owners defending asshole drivers. As a driver I can attest we’re constantly cussing each other out in public.

Cyclist will defend another rider who engaged in road rage with a car and almost lost their life in the process.

It’s a bandaid for a much larger issue. Our trains and tracks should have started a massive and complete overhaul updating the entire system 15 years ago. We won’t see a modern and safe train system in NYC in our generation. Most major cities have much more robust safety measures engineered into the design of the station while we are stuck, sweating our balls off on a dead train, late for work because of a signal failure from a system designed 120 years ago.