This year's 315 has made many vehicle manufacturers breathe a sigh of relief, and the apology template in the public relations computer can also be saved for later use. However, the blatant violation of the speed increase of multiple brands of electric bicycles has triggered a lot of discussion.
Electric vehicles with a speed of 25km/h can drive to 35 to 40km/h after "cracking the national standard speed limit", which is already the average speed of motor vehicles in urban traffic. However, when you are about to clock in late and are stuck in the non-motorized road by dense battery cars, you can't help but ask, why can't you make the battery car faster?
Driving too fast, it is really impossible to stop
According to the statistics of the China Bicycle Association in 2020, the social ownership of electric bicycles in the mainland is close to 300 million, and by this year, this value will grow to 400 million, while there is also an increase in traffic accidents caused by electric bicycles.
From 2012 to 2016, there were 193,000 road traffic accidents involving electric bicycles nationwide, resulting in a total of 37,700 deaths, of which 56,200 were active accidents caused by electric bicycles, resulting in 8,431 deaths, and the proportion of active accidents and fatalities was as high as 29.1% and 22.3%.
This means that 1 in every 3 electric bicycle traffic accidents, 1 is the driver actively causing the accident, and speeding is the main cause of the accident.
According to the "Electric Bicycle Safety Technical Specifications" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2019, the maximum speed of electric bicycles shall not exceed 25km/h, and the braking distance should be less than 7m in the case of simultaneous braking of the front and rear brakes. If the current speed reaches 35km/h, the braking distance is already ten meters away. In an emergency, the time left for both motorists and passers-by to react will shrink dramatically. In the event of wet and slippery weather on a rainy day, the danger will be further expanded.
Office workers, delivery workers, couriers, and parents of pick-up and drop-off are themselves the main group of people who make up electric bicycles, don't they know that it is safer to ride slower?
Taking takeaway delivery as an example, the wage structure of takeaway workers mainly depends on the unit price of the order, which is determined by the delivery distance, the price of the goods, and the peak peak, but what is more important is the odd number.
Everyone's daily time is fixed, and the only way to earn more than others is to run more time, more singular. Coupled with the time assessment of the platform, the delivery staff had to take a step faster and fight against time. If the work is to do good, it must first use its weapon.
Although the new national standard stipulates 25, takeaway workers usually choose electric motorcycles and modified electric vehicles to grab the next order at a faster speed. The way to distinguish between electric motorcycles and electric bicycles is also very simple, that is, to see if there is a foot pedal, the electric bicycle after the new national standard needs to be forced to install foot pedals, while the electric motorcycle does not.
More importantly, under the standards of the new national standard, driving electric motorcycles also requires a driver's license, so when you see those speeding delivery workers, don't doubt whether your battery car is rotten, why can't run people, because you are not riding itself is not a species.
If the delivery is late and you eat a cold meal, he gets a timeout fine, and the risk of slowing down is that no one wants to take it.
Wearing a helmet is really life-saving
People, vehicles and roads are the main risk factors that constitute traffic accidents on electric bicycles. At present, only electric mopeds and electric motorcycles need to obtain a driver's license, and electric bicycles still belong to the category of bicycles and do not require a driver's license. This also means that as long as you can ride a bicycle, find a clearing and ride two laps steadily, you can hit the road.
The driver's driving regulations for the road are blank. Adhering to the principle of "I will stop when you stop, and I will drill when there is a seam", I will rampage on the road. Coupled with the high density of the vehicles themselves, the difficulty of law enforcement, and connivance has become the norm.
In April 2020, the Ministry of Public Security issued a notice to carry out the "one helmet, one belt" security protection operation nationwide. The notice requires that the masses be reminded to consciously wear safety helmets when riding motorcycles and electric bicycles on the road, and the use of seat belts by car drivers and occupants should be standardized during driving to reduce the occurrence of traffic accidents and casualties.
Dai Shuai, director of the Policy Planning Office of the Road Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, revealed that since the launch of the "One Helmet and One Belt" action, in just 4 months, the safety helmet wearing rate of riders in Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Haikou has reached more than 80%, and Ningbo has reached 92%, while the previous wearing rate of some cities has been less than 30%.
It estimates that if every rider can wear the helmet correctly, 2500 to 3500 lives could be saved a year, and the number of road traffic fatalities in the country could be reduced by about 5%. Wearing a helmet is really life-saving.
More efficient urban access is the fundamental solution
Leaving aside the expensive cars, motorcycles that are restricted in many places, and the old man's music in the eighteen-line townships, opening the back door for electric bicycles seems to be a last resort.
Theoretically, the commuting distance to work is within 20KM, and even 25km per hour can be reached in 1 hour, but the young people rooted in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen tell us that too young too naive is why people want faster electric bicycles.
However, no matter how fast the bicycle still cannot solve the deeper traffic problem, the essence is because the urban traffic efficiency does not meet the current people's demand for travel, which is why in recent years, we can see such as Huawei, Tencent, Baidu and other large manufacturers have taken root in the "new infrastructure" and "smart transportation", the track, relying on their own technical foundation, to carry out more efficient vehicle-road coordination programs, to create a full value chain service.
Speaking people's words is to make traffic smarter and monitoring more meticulous through the processing of big data. With the iteration and landing of such technology, whether you are riding an electric bicycle or driving a motor vehicle, what can be intuitively felt is the smooth flow of the road and the convenience of commuting. At that point, maybe you'll have a chance to enjoy the wind at speed 35 per hour.