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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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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. You can take them on a course and you can drive them at top speed.

That wasn't the question. The question was how often do you actually use the top speed on an average vehicle? The answer is "practically never".

Yet you're pretending like the same doesn't apply for scooters and people would be blazing 100mph all the time if the scooter has a top speed of 100mph.

You're perfectly fine having several ton weighing machines which can do like 120-300mph on the roads and trust that people will behave with them, but something that's 40 times lighter and has at most double the top speed somehow can't be driven responsibly?

"Don't be a dolt."

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I am pretending no such thing, as I am not who you were arguing with, you churlish jackass. Now begone, Ive blocked you and your nonsense.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You're defending his argument, while refusing to answer my very simple "why would you drive a scooter at 100% speed all the time when you do that with literally no other vehicle, be it a car or a push bike?"

So yeah. Stop being a "churlish dolt"