Shared bicycleTraveling is becoming a series. Episode one: hibrows. The sharing bicycle was just born and the government welcomed it and contested its introduction. People love it, they love it, they love it. The government is troubled. Someone's vandalized and owned. And now the third episode is on the air: back in the air. Fancy carrying people, worrying。
According to numerous media reports, the car basket is manned by children, even adults. More slabs are used as backseats, even without a backseat. We can't let people sweat for this。
In terms of safety, there are currently several shared bicycles with baskets, mostly 40 cm long, wide and about 20 cm deep, with two to four screws fixed each. The maximum load is only about 20 pounds, and it's a little hard to carry a child alone. Once several of the main screws have fallen on the basket, the basket is prone to accidents。
In terms of traffic regulations, according to article 71 of the regulations for the implementation of the law of the people's republic of china on road traffic safety: “the provisions for bicycles carrying persons shall be established by the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government on the basis of local realities”. At present, however, there is no uniformity, and in the shanghai guidelines for shared bicycling services, it is clear that shared bicycles cannot be manned and that the use of “child chairs” is prohibited; the beijing municipal measures for the implementation of the law of the people's republic of china on road traffic safety stipulates that an adult can drive a bicycle with a child in a fixed seat (not a basket), but not with a person over 12 years of age; minors may not drive a bicycle. In the case of non-motorized drivers who violate the terms of the person on board, they face a warning or a fine of $20。
There may be some reasons why people “neglect” these issues so “shared”, but it is hard to say that some traders “neglect” these issues as well. In recent days, a “child-specific safe seat” dedicated to shared bicycles has been found on a web-based buying platform by youth journalists in beijing, with a number of vendors placing monthly sales orders of over 500 orders. However, according to journalists, the so-called “safe seat” is subject to problems of static and lack of seat belts. Several shared bicycle companies responded by prohibiting users from installing “children's seats” and children from travelling in shared bicycles were left to their parents。
Some parents believe that the “safe seat” network best sells, revealing the real need for a child seat. Some users who do not have private cars wish to use shared bicycles as a walker for delivering children. Parents tend to focus on the peak hours of school attendance, and there is a congestion of traffic around schools, and even in the case of a car family, sometimes it is not as convenient and safe as a bicycle. This is indeed a reality. But then again, without sharing a bicycle, parents can't pick up their kids? Shared bicycles are not a one-size-fits-all bicycle, and all trips cannot be expected to be handled by shared bicycles。
Of course, shared bicycles cannot be “discretionary sharing”, but they can be divided into categories. The variety of shared bicycles can be broken down, for example, for children, older human beings, disabled persons, etc. This is actually a demand for supply-side structural reform thinking in shared bicycles. It would be more comfortable to share a single pool of shared bicycles and to kill each other instead of the uncontrolled competition, rather than to divide the market according to the requirements of traffic laws and regulations to meet the special needs of the population at their own advantage. This also requires that government departments in different parts of the country that have not yet done so to develop guidelines for shared bicycle services based on local realities. (shin ding)
