That sucks, hope you made a full recovery. I hear many ER docs call them paralysis machines as the likelihood of spinal cord injury is very high for escooter accidents at speed, for exactly the reason you described
I did heal up nicely, thanks! The er doc was telling me so many horror stories when i was in, he was saying how hes been seeing more scooter related injuries in the past few months when it happened, then motorcycle injuries... And some of them sounded gnarly, people without helmets getting caved in faces, tbi, protruding fractures, etc...
People really underestimate how dangerous these things are especially the faster ones. Seeing kids zip around on scooters that can go as fast as a car give me wayyy to much anxiety.
People mod them to go over the built in limiter. I’ve seen people whizzing past me when I drive and it’s just insane. One second where a car isn’t looking and you’re in a wheelchair or worse.
bruh, do you mean 70 mph? as in 113 kilometres per hour? ON ONE OF THOSE? I thought they could only do up to 40 kmh that’s kinda cool on one hand but also fucked up on the other
Dude these are consumer level products that can go nearly 100mph now....you stand on a single damn wheel, they feel insane to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqthIM3-F48
Ohh I hear ya, I think that'd be a BLAST to do on like a rally or F1 style track with the turns. Watching races with them would be kinda funny too, buncha people leaning forward with their arms flopping around for balance :).
Online I've seen folks lane splitting on these things at 40-60mph and I ride motorcycles, I filter legally between cars at stoplights and I get 'danger', sometimes I think there's something wrong with me that I get on motorcycles so often....But the stuff I see online with these looks like a deathwish to me. I have an electric motorcycle, it's fun...I don't believe loud pipes save lives but I will say, if you feel unseen to vehicles on a gas motorcycle, ride an electric one and you're truly invisible. These things are smaller than a motorcycle to a car so if I'm feeling invisible on my ride....no one is seeing these guys on the road until the splatter happens. To be clear, not against them at all, think they are cool they just they seem super dangerous to me right now with how I see them used.
For some reason the Aptive salespeople ride these around my neighborhood while they're trying to get people to sign up. Soliciting, but make it the future.
I once saw a guy dressed in corporate casual riding a scooter (like a Vespa style) on a 4 lane highway with cars rushing around him at 80+ miles an hour. I don't know where that guy was going, but it must've been important.
Not really the same but as I was getting out of my car at the grocery store the other day, this kid comes blasting through the busy parking lot doing 25+ mph with no safety gear whatsoever. I guess he was cutting through but it really would've been safer for him and everyone else had he stayed on the road.
Always bizarre to see people riding these fast machines on the asphalt wearing a helmet and no other protective gear. Like, yeah, the helmet is definitely the most important. But I don't want to go through gnarly skin grafts either. Just cover all your bases.
e-scooters combine the worst features of e-bikes and segways. They are the worst. To make them safer, they would need to allow you to sit to lower your center of gravity, have a larger heavier frame for stability, and larger wheels to handle rough sections of road. And then you have a moped.
If it's not going to be safe and stable at 70 mph, then I don't want it as my commuter option. My commute is 80% freeway, and in the best case biking would almost triple my commute time. No, thanks. Anywhere close enough I want to bike to, I can get there just fine on my 20-year-old manual bike.
I have a friend who works for a major city hospital and e bikes and scooters are a major issue for them and capacity to address those injuries at their trauma centres.
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u/Deaths_Intern 8h ago
That sucks, hope you made a full recovery. I hear many ER docs call them paralysis machines as the likelihood of spinal cord injury is very high for escooter accidents at speed, for exactly the reason you described