Hugh?

With about one-half billion people using bikes as transport in China alone bicycle travel is serious transportation limited in the developed world by the brute force dangers and heavy subsidies of automotive transport which kills between 40,000 and 50,000 people a year in this country (accidents cost NYS over $19.45 billion annually) and over 1,260,000 worldwide and the largest killer of people under thirty years of age. It is so dangerous it is the only means of "normal" travel requiring insurance and for American domestic and international travelers the most serious danger.

Further, virtual monopolistic dominance of cars and energy has stifled development of hybrid human-electric transport much more suitable for the developed-world currently so popular in China that demand far outstrips production, and perhaps paradoxically, one of the principle engines bringing China into the developed world.