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I guess technically New Jersey's restrictive e-bike law also restricts e-motos www.peopleforbikes.org/news/new-jer... But, I imagine the total chaos and confusion caused by its restrictions of low-speed e-bikes is taking up the capacity that could target now banned high-speed e-motos sold online

New Jersey Passes Most Restrictive E-Bike Law in the U.S. | PeopleForBikesOn January 19, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the most restrictive e-bike law in the country. The new law restricts the definition of “low-speed electric bicycle” to only Class 1 devices, and ...www.peopleforbikes.org

I don't think it's at all what they mean, but a lot of traffic safety can be boiled down into managing the equation that F=MA Kinda goes against removing speed management from FHWA's Proven Safety Countermeasures, but we could save a lot of lives with slower speeds and lighter vehicles

But, I'm also critical of DOTs, law enforcement, etc that lead bike safety messaging with tips for bicyclists and don't emphasize the role that drivers play in bike safety Better driver education is needed, and it should focus less on becoming a driver and more on safety through all modes

Agreed Frustrating when I hear someone complain about people biking and say something along the lines of "they should be taught the rules of the road" as a gotcha rather than recognizing education is something that bicycle advocates actively work on and support bikeleague.org/introducing-...

Introducing Ready to Ride: A Vision for Universal In-School, On-Bike Education | League of American BicyclistsAt the League of American Bicyclists, we believe that every child deserves to experience the joy, confidence, and freedom that comes with learning to ride a bike. That’s why we’re…bikeleague.org

There's probably some truth there I've heard rumors that the effort to remove the 15th street bike lane in DC was due to its location on the motorcade route and one person not liking how the bike lane looked Since that removal was stopped (waba.org/2026/04/17/1...) this could be retaliation

In my experience with citation data: 1) It rarely exists in an easily accessible format 2) It is very common for citations to be reduced 3) As discussed above, systems do not do a good job of identifying truly dangerous drivers and getting the off the road, and it's not clear they try to

Most bicyclist deaths are in urban areas, but a lot of people bike in rural areas (including groups like the Amish) I've personally biked on many rural backroads Data compiled by @iihs-hldi.bsky.social shows 14-32% of bicyclist deaths are in rural areas since 2023: www.iihs.org/research-are...

Fatality Facts 2024: BicyclistsA summary of fatality statistics about bicyclists compiled by IIHS from 2024 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data.www.iihs.org

This is an interesting state law proposal to use tort law to incentivize the adoption of safer vehicle equipment The article says the "proposal's complicated tort law implications make its outlook dim to survive conference negotiations" but it's cool to see the attempt and hopefully others try it

The Magnus White and Safe Streets for Everyone Act would require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to adopt a performance standard for bicyclist detection (and other vulnerable road users) and make those systems standard equipment on new vehicles www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

We're working on it The Magnus White and Safe Streets for Everyone Act would require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to adopt a performance standard for bicyclist-Automatic Emergency Braking as required equipment on new vehicles www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

The @bikeleague.org supports the Magnus White and Safe Streets for Everyone Act, which would require the federal government to adopt bicyclist detection as a standard vehicle technology Every March we bring hundreds of advocates to lobby Congress if you're interested bikeleague.org/events/summit/

National Bike Summit | League of American Bicyclists2027 National Bike Summit – Save the Date March 9-11, 2027 | MLK Jr. Memorial Library | Washington, DC The 2027 National Bike Summit will take place in person in…bikeleague.org

Research from @iihs-hldi.bsky.social found Subaru's system was "one of the earliest crash avoidance systems capable of preventing bicycle crashes" and "reduced such parallel crashes by 29 percent but had only a minor impact on crashes with bicyclists overall" www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Subaru’s bicyclist detection shows positive resultsEarly versions of Subaru’s EyeSight system prevented nearly 30 percent of crashes with bicycles traveling parallel to the roadway but had little effect on crossing crashes — the most common variety.www.iihs.org

The US failure to test bicyclist detection in new vehicles just helps US manufacturers fall behind global competitors and makes people bicycling in the US less safe than they could be It's not pro-innovation, it lets companies off the hook for not innovating and pushing themselves on safety tech

If US manufacturers want to sell vehicles in Europe - then they need bicyclist detection (it's required there as of 2024) If US manufacturers want to sell vehicles in Japan, Australia, China, or Korea - then they need bicyclist detection (it's included in their new vehicle tests)

Automatic emergency braking is very common on new vehicles now - making it work for bicyclists is basically about software optimization (worst case scenario for cost is it requires better sensors) Earlier this year, pedestrian-AEB was just added to the US NCAP www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas...

Full survey data here: d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Bi... The survey also found that more Trump voters support "more bike lanes" than "fewer bike lanes" There's certainly a part of the base that likely sees bike lanes as liberal and therefore bad, but more support bike lanes

In the US, we've dragged our feet on adding really any assessment of pedestrian or bicyclist detection to our New Car Assessment Program It's on a roadmap for 2027 implementation, but we're missing all of the other deadlines right now www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.... Europe's had it since 2018

www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas... That interim rule could be the path for Tesla Their funding of a "three-year, $5 million 'A2SCEND' consortium" with SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (ITC) makes me think that AV performance standards are kind of far away... even if AV deployment is not

"Tesla has started producing a Cybercab that lacks human controls, but it has not outlined its path for regulatory approvals." The press release says they'll "Publish an interim final rule that allows vehicles manufactured prior to an exemption to be eligible for a commercial deployment exemption"

If you're looking for the resources deleted by the Federal Highway Administration, @nacto.bsky.social has a great page here: nacto.org/latest/the-e...

The evidence hasn't changed: Proven safety tools continue to be effective best practice - NACTONACTO makes available resources related to five proven safety countermeasures that were removed from FHWA website Earlier this month, the Federal Highway Administration pared down its list of proven s...nacto.org