How California cops are now using simple drones to catch illegal e-bike riders
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Once again, the editor fails to capture in the headline what nuance the author so painstakingly wrote into the article:
A two-wheel machine without pedals IS NOT an ebike. Those are motorcycles (aka motorbikes).
Even the police got it right, with both Irvine and Desert Hot Springs PD referring to the arrests as involving an electric dirt bike and a minibike, respectively, which are types of motorcycles. The author even goes through pains to describe how such electric motorbikes exist outside the three regulated classes of actual e-bikes.
To be abundantly clear, I'm not a fan of unfettered spying by police drones, nor am I a fan of disincentives to electric mobility. But here, the editor is pulling a stunt out of Orwell's 1984 by diluting the meaning of commonly understood words. I am not having this.
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Once again, the editor fails to capture in the headline what nuance the author so painstakingly wrote into the article:
A two-wheel machine without pedals IS NOT an ebike. Those are motorcycles (aka motorbikes).
Even the police got it right, with both Irvine and Desert Hot Springs PD referring to the arrests as involving an electric dirt bike and a minibike, respectively, which are types of motorcycles. The author even goes through pains to describe how such electric motorbikes exist outside the three regulated classes of actual e-bikes.
To be abundantly clear, I'm not a fan of unfettered spying by police drones, nor am I a fan of disincentives to electric mobility. But here, the editor is pulling a stunt out of Orwell's 1984 by diluting the meaning of commonly understood words. I am not having this.
If I could give gold stars, I'd give you one now.
