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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: 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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[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Best fix is banning large fossil fuel vehicles in heavily populated areas.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Large vehicles period if you ask me, EVs are much heavier than ICE vehicles and can accelerate much faster.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There are a lot of legitimate use cases for large vehicles in urban areas like construction, mass transit, and shipping.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

I count four reasons:

  • construction and repairs
  • mass transit
  • delivery of foods and goods
  • emergency services and police.

but a lot of deliveries and repairs can be managed by cargo bike.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Those could be special use cases driven by properly trained people with a CDL that get a pass or we could find new ways to do things, but there are a shitload of absolutely massive personal vehicles being driven around by people who don't know wtf they're doing and people are dying as a direct result.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago