The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition weighed in with a pointed response, arguing that the state should be making it easier, not harder, to own and use e-bikes. Their senior organizer echoed the sentiment shared by many riders: the real confusion and danger comes from people not being able to tell the difference between a legal e-bike and an electric moped, not from the bikes themselves.
Brett Thurber, co-owner of a San Francisco e-bike shop, raised a practical industry concern about AB 1557. Restricting California’s speed limits below what manufacturers currently build for the U.S. market could push companies to skip California customers entirely, shrinking the supply available to local shops and consumers.
I did in fact. Many times. You just kept sealioning about it, which gets annoying fast.
The fact that you can’t prove a negative is also absolute and utter nonsense. A simple study design would be to ask people when they get the fine whether they knew about it or not. And you will get a lot of liars, so it would be heavily biased, but it might show that they didn’t know.
Null hypotheses also get proven all the time.
So please, at least try to put as much effort into it as I did. You owe me as much.