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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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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Lol, natural selection.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm survival of the fittest maybe? Clean out the chaff?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The problem is that this chaff will likely maim and kill innocent bystanders.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

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

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

People need to stop trying to thwart natural selection when it comes to intelligence.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Why is a motorcycle site that feature machine that can also capable of this speed being so pessimistic about this?

But anyway, pothole would love to meet these thing.

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (3 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.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (7 children)

With proper infra and responsible drivers, yeah, sure.

Do we have that?

That being said I find it condescending that personal transport vehicles are limited in power, but cars are not.

Why could people not inherently abide by rules on a bicycling path if they can do so on the road with a car that can do 300 mph?

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What is an "100mph"?

Is it some sort of brand?

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