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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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[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It has some good design features that I'm surprised hasn't been implemented in many other vehicles I've seen (under seat storage), but I hate the design and can only imagine how bad those angles are if they hit a pedestrian. Even if you need a motorcycle lisence for higher speeds, the number of people riding on sidewalks to this day make this design scary to me even at lower speeds.

[–] Ramenator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, that under seat storage is completely normal here, even for a number of electric scooters. The only improvements this has is an ugly design, a hefty price tag and pandering to tech bros

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I didn't know that. I'm not big into scooters most of what I've seen has been the rentable sitting ones that just have a post or standing scooters that don't have storage, but that makes sense that others have implemented it already. I think you're right about who it's pandering to, the venn diagram of people who order this and people who order a cybertruck is a circle.