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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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[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe make legal ones easier to get? More cycle lanes? Allow them uber drivers to sit a test so they know how to use the overpowered ones? Then it becomes less dangerous

[–] socsa@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean nothing stops Uber drivers from getting a moped license.

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

The bikes are cheaper than a moped

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because they are illegal mopeds. Manufacturing them is cheaper when they don't have to use money to pass any of the safety regulations and requirements of actual mopeds.

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

you mean airbags? Crumple zones? Toxic emmisions standards?...

That's not the reason and you know it.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If they are built to spec, then it should be trivial for the manufacturers to make a legal version for those who want one, no? They could still keep selling the other version too, it would literally be the same vehicle after all, one would just have the required papers.

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

You know that's not the reason. Stop telling yourself lies