If you open your eyes and look into you are walking around, you don't need to listen to the bikes. The riders need to be the one that look after a corner. If you are walking with your music full load you won't listen a bus or a car comming from somewhere
I second that, but only the FX at this stage. The torque and acceleration of a much larger bike with the lightness and versatility of a dirt bike all without alerting everyone in a 1 mile radius that your opening the throttle to have a little fun. Sounds like a good deal but the price is still the kicker. What exactly in these batteries makes them so expensive?
These electric motorbikes should also be designed and sold for paramedics and fire rescue. Since the motorbike can go inside malls and other crowded, indoor places, these motorbikes have a huge advantage over even gas powered ambulance motorbikes. With that being said, these Zero motorbikes can get to a patient, even directly, much quicker than a paramedic on a gas motorbike. Ordering a lot of Zero motorbikes for paramedics would be really useful in a mass casualty event, such as a mass shooting, where some wounded people who are seriously hurt will survive without complications only if rapidly treated with professional medical attention.
Zero Motorcycles: some type of recognizable sound would be helpful, electronic or mechanical. Maybe add some type of forward-projecting noise maker to run on default, and give the rider a temporary override switch that resets after a programmed time, or after the bike has stopped. (maybe a police style "thumper" siren? short projection range.) As is, these just scream for lawsuit trolls faking officer/pedestrian accidents. I'd venture few good things come from stealthy sidewalk motorcycles.
technically since they are electric they are listed as a non-motorized vehicle like bicycles, skate boards, or scooters. Might as well ban those from campus since bicycle accidents are far more likely, and definitely a more common occurrence on campus. And its a virtually silent electric bike, so riding it into the library is just a funny way of showing it. but i'm sure being a safety officer (like me) we both know better than the POLICE officers.
BoomTen80 that is incorrect. Anything that goes over 40 mph is considered a motorized vehicle, and they have a huge visible motor, motor is not inherently gasoline; teslas are electric, those are definitely categorized as motorized vehicles.
not to flame here, but seeing as how I used to be a campus safety officer, riding these silent bikes on sidewalks is a real hazard for pedestrians who have the right of way on the walk way. I can just see someone coming around a corner of a building and BAM... plus riding your bike into a building? wtf why?
Well what you say is a great point. But I think it is just saying that it is an option depending on the circumstances. I feel they would avoid the sidewalks if possible but if the situation called for it (ie. As opposed to driving a car the wrong way on a chase as mentioned here) then they would rather use the bikes. As for the riding in building, I think it's just a demonstration thing. While not the first thing I can imagine them riding around in, I can see them easily fitting those bikes between bookshelves at the library.
