Study on the safety and comfort of electric two-wheeled mobility

Abstract

Recently, the number of bicycle accidents are increasing with the increasing population of cyclists. In particular, the accidents of the elderly and women riding with an infant are outstanding. The authors thought that is caused by instability when starting partly. Then we focused on the full electric bike which is one of the electric two-wheeled mobility. In Japan, the full electric bike isn’t treated as a bicycle by the law, but it has the potential to run safer than the conventional bicycle because it can run only with a throttle and diminish the wamble when starting. Then, we conducted experiments about the safety and comfort of the full electric bike and did a comparative analysis with the regular bike and the electric assisted bicycle. In the result, it was revealed that full electric bike is more stable and run more comfortable than the other two bikes. On the other hand, it was revealed that there are some problems such as the weight of the full electric bikes.