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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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Honestly a great take. While i generally doesn't mind throttle-only use of an ebike, some of these machine is just way too fast, to the point people are starting to look at ebike like they look at car.

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sure, can you leave a timestamp about the part you're referring to?

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems like he's referring to the very real problem of people getting a doctor's note to let them bring an untrained animal anywhere as if it were a trained service animal, and relating that to people putting pedals on a motorcycle to let them go anywhere a bike would be allowed.

It's an apt comparison as people with trained service animals and compliant ebikes are both hurt by others who bend or break their respective rules.

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

very real problem

Is it though? Not a problem I've ever encountered, unlike dangerous ebikes. And the latter causes actual injury, not just a minor nuisance, so I wouldn't call it an apt comparison either.

If, however, the commonly held opinion is that animals in restaurants are as big a problem as dangerous motor vehicles... I guess that explains the lack of response at least.