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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I gave up motorbike riding due to too many close calls with bad drivers - swerving into me without indicating or looking. Cutting me off due to 'not seeing me', etc.
Call me safety-obsessed but if I'm on a road surrounded by cars increasingly driven by a greying population - I'm not gonna be in a $13k go-kart with a plastic tarp roof and crossing my fingers that I don't have an accident.
The future of urban transport is changing the infrastructure to focus on safety for all rather than having cars go fast.
Sure, but we live in a world where these will coexist with standard cars, just as bikes often do now.
I don't see how these 'carbikes' by Kubi focus on safety at all. They go from 25-35km/hr top speed and are as heavy as a petrol scooter / light motorbike, yet require and encourage no helmet and have very little in the way of safety features inbuilt (headlights, indicators, horn. End of list). They proudly state you don't even need a licence to drive one (as you generally do for a motorbike).
So while they reduce top speed and weight of a car, they also lose 90% of the safety features and discourage any PPE you'd see a scooter/motorbike rider wear.