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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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Can it really be legal for motorcycles to run red lights? The answer in some places is "Yes." Here's why, and a list of every state where this is the law.

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[–] philodendron@lemdro.id 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, stop signs were designed for cars since people can't be trusted not to speed. On a bike your top speed is in most cases slower than any residential speed limit, so coming up to an intersection is usually done at the same speed as a car would be while doing a rolling stop.

What people miss about the Idaho stop is it isn't giving carte blanche to run blindly thorough stop signs, we just get to use them as yields which makes it much easier to maintain momentum. Anybody who's ever ridden a bike in traffic knows how much it sucks to come to a full stop and then slowly start cranking back up to speed while cars are kissing your back tire.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Idaho stop

Fuck, Where I'm from, we call it a California Stop (slowing down at a stop sign, but not fully stopping)