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Well the CDC is studying the issue, They've already found out that most accidents don't happen via car incidents...
“There’s a perception that scooter-related injuries occur at night. Well that’s not true,” Taylor said. “Our study will show they occur during all times of the day. People may also perceive there’s typically a car involved. But our study finds most of the time the rider may hit a bump in the road or they simply lose their balance.”
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Ok, but doesn't having it on the sidewalk actually help with this too? Sidewalks are going to have fewer random bumps and potholes than roads and presumably you're moving more slowly...
Of course the flip side to that is that most of the data we have is from places they're allowed on the road, right? Which means that the Calgary outcomes could be different (not necessarily better). You're obviously going to have way fewer scooters crashing into cars and way more scooters crashing into pedestrians (and maybe bikes) with this system.
I'm not saying that's better or worse, but just saying "elsewhere most accidents happen on the road so we ban them on the road, problem solved" doesn't make much sense, unless you can show that restricting use to the sidewalks in other places has led to fewer accidents. You're now increasing sidewalk traffic, which is a smaller space to avoid collisions and still has traffic of varying speeds. Intuitively, that sounds to me like it'd lead to more accidents, but less severe ones on average (not as likely to end up in an ER as scraped and bruised).