The bicycle would fail if it were invented today

[Aesopian]

Let's say for whatever reason the bicycle never got invented before. I guess that would mean no scooters or motorcycles either. So basically, people always got around on stable 4 wheel vehicles only.

And someone invents the bicycle today. Would it be a success in today's world?

I don't think so.

1. It requires you to go outside and kids (and most adults) just want to be inside all the time.

2. It requires work to learn how to ride it. Almost every other product on the market is obsessed with making their products so easy to use that it takes zero practice. People are spoiled by this. Customers will try the bicycle once or twice then give up and write bad reviews about it.

3. It's not 100% safe. People nowadays aren't willing to try a product that will cause them to fall down several times while learning how to use it. And inevitably one idiot will fall and crack their head on the street and die and the media will run all these stories about how this new invention is deadly.

So basically, if the bicycle was not already ingrained in our culture from a bygone era where these risks were trivial, it would never get off the ground today.

TLDR: society is weak. Saw this elsewhere.

 

[Ares]

Premise seems flawed.

As if only because kids grew up riding bikes for fun, that's why the consumer market keeps demanding bikes for children and adults.

The bicycle literally won Japan a campaign during WW2, its not a cultural phenomenon that has stuck around, its a very useful means of human-powered transport.

This is why young people need to learn far more depth on a far wider breadth of subjects... without that knowledge you boil down a premise to such a myopic viewpoint you can convince yourself of ridiculous nonsense.

"Bro the only reason girls even want to date us, IS FOR OUR CANDY MONEY."