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HaoBianTai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Isn’t this article very clearly referring to Asian adoption of scooters, not a bunch of New Yorkers on e-bikes?

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adrian783@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
does that invalidate the point?

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- HaoBianTai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean, yes? You’re whining about US decision making around subsidies using a portion of the article discussing electric scooters in places like Taiwan. These are different continents and different vehicle types.
  
  A $500 subsidy on electric bicycles would not get Americans out of their cars and onto a bicycle, but it might make cycles move to electric bikes, which wouldn’t be a behavioral change that would impact anything relevant to this study.
  
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  - adrian783@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    A $500 subsidy on electric bicycles would not get Americans out of their cars and onto a bicycle, but it might make cyclists move to electric bikes, which wouldn’t be a behavioral change that would impact anything relevant to this study.
    
    why would you think that?
    
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