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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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[–] nailingjello@lemmy.zip 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They don't discuss specific speeds, but this is from the last paragraph:

This jigger, according to the manufacturers, makes you handily quicker than an equivalent swimmer with fins on.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's "handily quicker"? A lot quicker? A good phrase for selling a novelty product?

I have to wonder how the Seabike, as shown exclusively in a swimming pool rather than any of the many seas on the planet, actually performs.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What's "handily quicker"?

About 30 long bananes per hour.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm very skeptical about that. It's an expensive augmented swimming device that says it's faster than fins but doesn't prove it with stats or even just a side-by-side video...?

Yeah. I'm just gonna say it's not quicker, and certainly not more efficient.