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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Italy here. I LOVE bikes, I do part of my commute by bike (the rest by train) and I wish my city made even harder for cars to drive in the city in favour of bikes.
With that said, we need a law like this here because e-bikes are a new kind of hell for everyone:
Most of them are easily modifiable so they reach up to 50km/h without having to pedal. Making them electric motor-scooters.
Because of this, they are basically a free for all: no need to respect traffic laws, red lights... fuck, they even pass pedestrians in the sidewalk at speeds that are superior to the speed limit of the street for car
Also because of this, you better pray to not get involved in an accident with one. If you are on foot and get hit by one, they will simply run and let you in the ground. And if you are in a car... well, tough luck because you'll have to pay for your own repair even if they caused them.
And most of these assholes work for delivery companies like deliveroo, just eat and similars.
So yeah, since we can't have nice things, give me a law and fuck all these assholes dearly.
The law mentioned in the article isn't doing what you are describing:
Most people support classifying electric motorcycles and gas-powered motorcycles the same, while keeping pedal assist in a category with regular pedal bicycles. But that's not what this law is doing.
I know. And I still want it. Why? Because if people here don't give a fuck about safety (neither theirs nor that of others), then at least we should force them to have the bare minimum to be accountable.
Would it be better if they did it in a different way? Probably, but I know this country, and I know people don't give a fuck about other when they drive any vehicle, so yeah, give me this, make them pay an insurance and get a license. And fuck them all, because we can't have good things here.
Almost like they’re cycles. Cycles with motors. Could call them “motorcycles” for short. And treat them as such.
(Agreeing with you in case it isn’t obvious with my sassy tone).