Anecdotally, I've recently felt far more threatened by e-bikes in NYC than I ever have by cars. Cars in NYC are nuts, but they're a competent kind of nuts. I've never had one get even close to me, and that's with me jaywalking as much as any local.
E-bikes are a totally different story. They'll shoot through narrow streets twice as fast as the cars do and blitz through stop signs without even slowing down. There have been multiple occasions where I was nearly hit by one of them.
They seem to think that because they're smaller they don't need to care as much, but at the relative speeds of cars and bikes on those narrow streets I'm pretty convinced they'd do more damage to me than the 5-10 mph car would.
E-bikes are a totally different story. They'll shoot through narrow streets twice as fast as the cars do and blitz through stop signs without even slowing down. There have been multiple occasions where I was nearly hit by one of them.
They seem to think that because they're smaller they don't need to care as much, but at the relative speeds of cars and bikes on those narrow streets I'm pretty convinced they'd do more damage to me than the 5-10 mph car would.