Comment by wouldbecouldbe

Comment by wouldbecouldbe 2 hours ago

So tired of current trend in Europe, the Goverment should solve every issue & every day everyone wants a new rule.

We have now so many rules either they are not enforced or they are making everythingn slow or expensive.

Now to solve those issues, they will call for new legislations, but again they will be enforced only for the first 2 weeks. And then again a call for new rules will be made.

Take for instance FAT bikes in Netherlands, these are e-bikes with big wheel that young kids like. They drive like madman, harrass women in parks & everybody wants to ban them. But there is already enough legislation to take care of these kids, they are just not enforcing them. And probably rightly so, because they have bigger issues to deal with.

Not everything can be solved with a pill.

bogtog 2 hours ago

Opening that video, American-style pickup trucks are about 40% more likely to kill a pedestrian 100% more likely to kill a child (the video argues that this mostly stems from the shape of the front). These cars also get into more crashes

Honestly, banning these things seems sensible when the only thing going for them for most buyers is seemingly an appreciation of their style

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wouldbecouldbe 2 hours ago

Yeah there is always a reason for a rule that makes sense, but there is also a price for making a new rule everytime something doesnt work.

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prmoustache 2 hours ago

A fat bike is a bike with >3.8" tires and is not necessarily an e-bike nor an issue. Some people use them in the snow, sand or trail without issues to anyone and I have occasionally also used mine in the city because it was more comfortable to ride at slow speed than my road bike and stops on a dime thanks to the available grip.

There are a number of trendy aliexpress quality e-bikes that are also using fat tires and are ridden by idiots but the problem is not fat bikes per se. The problem is idiots on unrestricted/modded e-bikes. Ban fat bikes and they will use unrestricted e-bikes with different tires and the problem will be the same.

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CalRobert an hour ago

Note that the term fatbike means a mountain bike in America but essentially a small electric motorcycle in the Netherlands, UK, etc

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- Lio 34 minutes ago
  
  Not the UK, here fatbikes are mountain bikes just with wider tyres.
  Something like a Trek Farely or Canyon Dude.
  They may also be assisted e-bike but not exclusively.
  
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wouldbecouldbe 2 hours ago

Yeah that's kind of the point, new rules will often not solve things, but will just move the issue. The underlying issue with certain groups in society & not enforcing will remain.

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago

> We have now so many rules either they are not enforced or they are making everythingn slow or expensive.

What exactly is so slow or expensive that you're prevented to do because of some regulation or law?

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wouldbecouldbe 2 hours ago

In theory many laws are based on good ideas, but in practice they dont or only partially accomplish what they set out to do. Few examples:
- Bureaucracy around clinical trials The old Clinical Trials Directive (2001/20/EC) was meant to harmonise standards, but in practice it led to lots of extra admin and different interpretations in each country, which made multi-country trials slow and expensive. EUR-Lex You can see the effect in the numbers: Europe’s share of commercial clinical trials fell from ~22% in 2013 to about 12% in 2023, even while global trial numbers increased by ~38%.
- Medical Device Regulation (MDR & IVDR) bottleneck Meant for safety, but has meant delays and uncertainty for new devices and even risks of shortages of older ones, which clearly affects innovation. * https://www.meddeviceonline.com/doc/we-re-heading-toward-a-b...
- Data protection (GDPR) and health/science data Complexity and fragmentation of implementation can definitely slow things down, especially for big pan-European projects or AI/“big data” medicine. In theory it's good, but researcher or not being helped on how they can compete worldwide while being GDPR compliant, meaning EU will get behind & certain research is done elsewhere
Many more examples in other fields then medicine. And there are clearly a lot of good laws, but our idea of running a country is just adding lots of new rules every year is just faulty.

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