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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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[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sure reducing vans is fine and great but full on replacing them seems not very plausible

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No one is proposing "full on replacing them". We can, however, replace a whole LOT of them like they're starting to do in Europe.

Sheesh, is this really the micromobility community? This is such a modest proposal. "Well, we still need cars sometimes!" is exactly the sort of nonsense straw-person you hear all the time that prevents any iota of change from the car dependent status quo.

[–] zoe@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

like they're starting to do in Europe.

so u dont live in europe and presume that u live in the states, so it shouldn't be strange to u that there are parts in the us where the weather isn't forgiving and temps could reach aggressive levels. u can't surmount that heat/and humidity with cargo ebikes/bikes.

[–] TimtheTimTim@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think I've ever read a comment that said so much and yet so little at the same time

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