Also, despite the anecdotes that “It feels like almost every other trauma that’s coming in is related to an e-bike” & "I was one step into the street when a kid about 13 on a bike nearly sent me to my obituary"

Cars kill 30,000 to 40,000 people in America every single year, and are a bigger problem

Marketing

Power levels

Performance, including braking

Labeling

Anti-tampering so you can't "just go on YouTube and learn how to defeat the speed limiter."

And many more issues that are brought up in articles like this could be subjects of regulation by NHTSA

“would you buy your kid a Yamaha 250 and let him out on the city streets? Because just a twist of the throttle makes it exactly like a motorcycle.”

Motorcycles are regulated by NHTSA
NHTSA has so far chosen not to regulate e-motos

As long as there's not national regulation, it's a wild west

42 percent of pedestrians killed on roads in Texas since 2009 were on roads without lighting

TxDOT will spend $104 Billion over the next 10 years - how much of that will go toward lighting to save pedestrian lives?

Give people safer infrastructure not just safety messages

Local interests can be federal interests if they are part of a complete approach to an issue

Bicycling and walking can substitute for car trips that otherwise impact congestion and safety in interstate commerce

The federal interest in funding bike lanes is that bike lanes improve transportation

The idea that bike lanes are a "local interest" undeserving of federal funding runs counter to Congressional intent to allow bike lanes to be funded through most federal transportation funding programs

Most travel is local intrastate travel regardless of mode

Hopefully, DC is not just sending letters to people who satisfy conditions for their licenses being revoked or their vehicles being towed

Interesting report out of NYC showing that drivers there are not being punished as they rack up many camera tickets nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/d...

Culturally, I think that many people are wary of revoking licenses because many places are so car-dependent that it is hard to conceive of not driving

DC is a place where you don't need a car, & they have a limited license process for work use (not sure how common it is) dmv.dc.gov/service/limi...

Legally, I think they are not revoking licenses because these drivers have at least two camera tickets, but not the more than 10 points within six months that can result in license suspension or otherwise meet conditions for license suspension or revocation dmv.dc.gov/service/susp...

So much of government-led traffic safety efforts are spent on trying to influence the hardest to influence high-risk drivers

It'd be great if governments spent more effort on galvanizing the demand for safer streets and a positive traffic safety culture