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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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Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper...

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[–] ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let’s take New York City, for example. It’s got more e-bike usage than anywhere else in the US, and there are still only an average of two pedestrians per year killed by an e-bike accident. That number for cars? Around 100 per year in NYC. It’s not complicated math – cars are 50x more lethal in the city.

I have no doubt that ebikes are less dangerous, but this data doesn't do much to prove that point.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You have to do deaths per vehicle on the road. Raw data is useless for making any sort of comparison.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Probably deaths per distance traveled rather than vehicle count.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I think both metrics are valuable. Also the ratio of incidents where pedestrians did/didn't die might be useful.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

Death per distance traveled shouldn't be use on thing that usually travel short distance though, because pedestrian death is the highest if measured this way, making the impression that walking is dangerous.