{"id":354495,"date":"2026-05-26T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/america-is-panicking-about-e-bikes-while-ignoring-the-real-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:03:33","slug":"america-is-panicking-about-e-bikes-while-ignoring-the-real-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/america-is-panicking-about-e-bikes-while-ignoring-the-real-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"America is panicking about e-bikes while ignoring the real problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/america-is-panicking-about-e-bikes-while-ignoring-the-real-problem.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>If you spend enough time reading local news headlines these days, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking electric bicycles are one of the greatest threats facing American streets. Teenagers on fat-tire e-bikes, viral videos of wheelies, stories about injuries complete with ER doctor interviews\u2026 the same themes are playing on repeat. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/05\/26\/america-is-panicking-about-e-bikes-while-ignoring-the-real-problem\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/america-is-panicking-about-e-bikes-while-ignoring-the-real-problem\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":354496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}