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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No.

But put that technology in an electric motorbike that requires a licence, registration and insurance - Hell Yeah!

Here's an interesting clip.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This should be regulared. At the very least, require any user to be an organ donor

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Bold of you to assume there will be organs left.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago

No way the brakes can handle that.

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Lmao, 100mph is illegal in many European countries. Even in highways.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean they'd help with overpopulation.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

While that is true, it will also reduce overpopultation with regards to his victims.

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Excellent Darwin tool 😆

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

When I was walking my dog's in the park late at night I watched a dude eat total shit on one of those mono wheel things. It was on pavement, and he got pretty scraped up. I can't imagine how wrecked a person should get if they were going 100mph on a scooter.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

Fuck, imagine driving on the interstate going 60 in your car, and you see a dude on a scooter catching up to you on it, waving hello to you.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yay, murder suicide machines are here!

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me, but the preferred nomenclature is "meat crayon dispenser".

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Until you find yourself in the path of one of those assholes, then it's either lights out or maybe continue life as a vegetable

These things must be prohibited, period

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

I love The Suicide Machines!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

That thing can't be interstate legal. But it would be really funny until it isn't

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Terrifying to think about for me or kids. Hopefully, it is a promotion and an engineering exercise to develop the tech and showboat the possible. Performance bike and car manufacturers have done this for decades to enhance their brand and to sell their road legal cars or bikes. Personally I find the idea of eScooters terrifying, but will ride my bike, which when I think about it offers almost zero protection either.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bikes are a lot more stable than scooters at almost any speed, and have more flex to them, and these days often at least some sort of suspension. My kid loves his e scooter but it does 30mph and unless it's on a long, straight flat trail it's scary for me doing 30 mph. I can almost get my pedal bike to that speed, maybe even over if I really work at it down hill, and I've never even been nervous on that.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

and the larger, softer wheels on a bike are going to slow it down much faster, and with a lot more control, than anything rolling on tiny wheels with miniscule contact patches.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Exactly, that's his favorite part is that he can kind of "drift" it.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

Wearing motorcycle-grade protection on an eScooter kills the point of the eScooter.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is an "100mph"?

Is it some sort of brand?

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

100 miles per hour. Equal to 160 kilometers per hour.

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