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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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Considering my previous comments about these (and the earlier thread as a whole), I'm fairly impressed they've found a use case which has the smooth, level floors needed for this to work well.
That said, given how poorly warehouse workers are treated, this application seems like it will only exacerbate demands upon workers, driving them harder and for longer hours. I'm left wondering why it's the case that warehouses cannot just rearrange their operations so that workers don't have to walk as far, thereby forestalling the need for walking enhancement altogether.
Also new potential injuries. I wonder what OSHA has to say about this? Progress is great, but I do agree that this is pushing the boundary in places when there are probably lots of other areas that could be improved for similar results. The money for this probably came out of a different bucket, to use the business lingo, and I've always hated that accounting excuse...seeing expensive toys being bought for one purpose while workers deal with old and broken crap because their "bucket" budget was strained. From a Fortune 400 company...
Brand new warehouses are probably good for this. What about the warehouse that has been around for 50+ years with cracks and settled concrete everywhere. It's like Google Glass: an innovation with no real world problem to solve.
Put in those human conveyor belts like they have at airports.