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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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[โ€“] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not too interested in reading the article, but I reiterate my categorical objection to similar "safety" devices: why must bicyclists be the ones that have to carry the burden when it is automobiles that are maiming and killing bicyclists? In any functional sense of justice, it would be the aggressor that is punished, and their behavior curbed by effective laws and infrastructure.

Anything short of that is, in my view, a failure in public policy, and no amount of technical innovations can substitute for that.

You answered your own question: The reason is because public policy has failed to protect people.