- Throttle! – Struggling. – Careful!
- There she goes. – I love the commentary. – You’re about to lose…
(laughter) (loud screaming) - Oh! (electronic beeping) (sizzling) With new technology usually
comes the controversy of new regulations. Are electric scooters
really that dangerous? Should they be regulated? And if so, why? There’s been a huge spike in coverage when it comes to electric scooters from whether or not we should be
using them for personal use. Should they be acceptable in
major cities like New York as a ride sharing option? I personally don’t ride
an electric scooter, but I know many people who do and I see them all the time on the West Side Highway in New York. I even know of one very famous YouTuber who lives in New York and
loves electric scooters. – See you at the gate, bro. (loud crashing) – I’m actually a big fan. Making headlines this week
is a study out of UCLA that attempted to quantify how
many people actually come in for electric scooter injuries, in comparison to pedestrian
and bicycle accidents. This is a first of it’s kind study, and while it’s not proving
any kind of causation, it’s really interesting so
let’s jump into those numbers. The study looked at two major ER centers in Southern California and found
that over a one year period 249 people came in as a
result of scooter accidents. Now the majority of these were
the rider themselves, 92%. But here’s the scary statistic, only 4% of people were
wearing helmets, 4%. That’s crazy, scooters travel pretty fast, 15-20 miles an hour, moving
in the midst of traffic. How are you not wearing a helmet? If we dive further into the study, we find that 40% of these
accidents involved head traumas, 32% involved fractures. Think about that, 70% of
these injuries were serious. This begs the question, what should we be doing to
regulate electric scooters so that we can decrease these accidents? Or what studies should we be preforming to see how dangerous
scooters actually are? The companies that represent
the scooter ride sharing apps are quick to jump in and point out that we don’t know how many
people are riding scooters compared to bikes in this area, so maybe these are overestimated. I don’t think that’s the case. Granted, I don’t have
evidence but my gut tells me that’s not the case. Look if something is moving very quickly in comparison to a bicycle or walking, the types of injuries that
are gonna be happening are more severe, that’s only logical. The question is at what
rate do they happen and when they happen, are they more severe than
car accidents for example? New York Post recently
had a quote in it saying, “That’s about one death for
every 12.5 million miles ridden. “More than six times
deadlier than driving.” Now I tried to figure out where they got those statistics from ’cause they sound really scary, but I would like more research
to be done in this area. Because if that’s true,
we should know about it. This isn’t to ban electric scooters or to discourage you
totally from using them, it’s about knowing what the risks are, adjusting for those risks
either through regulation or some personal methods,
and then being smart. When you’re smart, that’s how
you stay happy and healthy. (sharp breathing in) That was quick Wednesday checkup, why don’t we open some packages that you sent to my P.O. box. I’m excited. All right, we got something from Hungary. I’ve been there before. Oh my god, this is the book “Flow” that I recommended in my book
that’s will change your life, but is this written… Is this in Hungarian? Did you try ordering for yourself and it accidentally came to me? (laughs) Okay I have a Hungarian friend I will definitely pass this book along. Thank you so much for this. (loud shaking) Ooh, this is from… Germany, from a person names Pia. I may or may not have some
experience with that name. This feels like shoes. Oh! It is not shoes. “Hey, Doctor Mike, here it is
your surprise from Germany, “a parcel filled with German candy. “Hope you’ll receive it before Christmas “since there are some
Christmas candies in it.” My god, these look scary. They’re black candy. You know we’re unboxing
this Kinder together. Oh but I can’t eat it ’cause I’m on keto. By the way keto’s going really well, I’m excited for your guys
to see the final keto video. Okay, Kinder Egg, in Russia we used to eat
Kinder Eggs all the time. (silent gasp) Okay, it’s a little bunny-looking thing. Oh! It’s a kangaroo, I think. (laughs) Uh? No reverse address, but pull tab.
(paper ripping) Ooh, it’s wrapping inside wrapping. You really wanted to make
sure this was gonna be safe. Oh my god, another wrap! Oh my god, how many wrappers
did you put in this! Did you just wrap? Hold on a second, this
is still continuing. You bubble wrapped it and then you regular wrapped in again. Oh my god, is it just wrapping paper? What is happening right now? Oh my god, more wrapping paper! Oh my god, more paper! (laughs) (paper crinkling) (laughing) What’s with the socks? Why do people think I need so many socks? A little tie action socks, that’s cute. I’ll wear these to work, I appreciate it. You did not need to kill
400 trees to wrap this! Although I appreciate your sense of humor. This from North Carolina. It’s a shirt that says for female, but I guess it could be… This is adorable actually. I think that’s a Newfie.
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