k1lk1 t1_j9dqqkw wrote
Reply to comment by Curiosities in Why Fires From E-Bike Batteries Have Left Cities Helpless by bikeskata
> You can identify someone, you can claim against their insurance for damage or injury.
The first thing wrong with this is that fake and obscured plates are at epidemic levels in the city. I could walk down the block and find 5 right now before I got to the nearest bodega. These guys could mow down pre-schoolers at a crosswalk and get away with it if they kept going.
The second thing is that insurance is motivated at meth-head levels of single minded focus to make the problem go away as soon as possible and as cheaply as possible, and will almost NEVER go beyond the police report in assigning blame or forcing compensation. So you're dependent in your payout, on whatever bored cops show up that day, and that's ONLY IF the vehicle aggressor sticks around.
The clear and specific way to solve the battery issue is to ban non-UL batteries, and have random checkpoints at which all EVs are inspected and impounded if found to have fakes.
supermechace t1_j9fg6iz wrote
like anything it's usually a few bad apples that ruin things for everyone else. My friends elderly mom got hit by a car. Lawyer got her 60k plus hospital bills. If e vehicles are required to be insured it could also lead to the delivery services requiring only licensed vehicles be used and employers held liable or bikes confiscated for being unlicensed. Fake license plates is part of the general NYC police indifference which is impacting all crime levels but eventually politicians will get police to make this a priority again, I long island there are crack downs on fake paper plates from time to time. Unfortunately in the US only major fear of consequences motivate the bad actors
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