micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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One other factor for rentals' brakes: they could need to be replaced due to wear from heavy usage. Even with experience on the same type of rental bike doesn't mean much if their brakes are all at different wear levels.
Yes, and also, I've heard of brakes on rental e-scooters being vandalized (cables cut), which result in crashes. It's entirely possible that sabotage also happens on rental e-bikes, but who knows how many crashes are a result of that.
My first thought was, who rides anything without testing the brakes being the first thing you do. But then I thought some more.