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I'll sell an add on speaker. Loud pipes save lives.
They truly don't
Zero owners have much lower crash rates than Harley owners. Brutherrrr.
they move pedestrians out of the way when you're driving slow. the same situation you could ask them politely or ring a bell. so really they're for folk with social anxiety.
That study just proves that they need to be REALLY loud to work. Aight then.
That would be nice. People could turn them off at 2AM when there's no one else on the roads. But I'm sure they wouldn't.
Or when they're in low speed population dense areas where bicyclists are part of traffic.