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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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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would to except I don't think I can get past neutral if the car is moving. But neutral will still stop you but at the expense of the engine instead of the trans.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would neutral do anything to the engine?

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Assuming that you are accelerating uncontrollably because the throttle is stuck open for some reason putting it in neutral doesn't fix that issue. It just stops the car from accelerating (i.e. fixes the symptom but not the disease). So the engine remains going full tilt, redlines, and blows itself up.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago

Oh, sure I get what you mean. It's not like neutral itself would be doing anything damaging though.