People are too damn lazy to pedal a frickin’ bike?
Oh. You don't know the whole of it. These battery-powered motorcycles are sold to the public as e-bicycles. They are NOT bicycles. Some of them have top motor-assisted speeds of 40 mph and tires as wide as six inches.
They weigh at least a hundred pounds so God help you if your 17-pound bicycle with you on it gets hit by one of them. The City of Tampa in its leftwing stupidity at one point was actually offering rebates to any driver who bought one of these insane machines, under the assumption it meant ONE MORE CAR NOT ON THE ROAD.
Well guess what--you NEVER see one of these machines ridden on the street. The morons who ride these demonic devices on the trails are arrogant and stupid and completely out of shape physically yet endanger everyone around them who is NOT motorized.
The laws against them are not enforced. In Florida they have turned the cycling and jogging trails into potential killing zones.
The e-Bike industry has spent a lot of money greasing community and media outlet palms. It's a billions-of-dollars-a year-moneymaker for a few people, so in America this is what happens.