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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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A woman who was run over and impaled by an e-bike is on a mission to get them better regulated in Massachusetts.

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Over 1 fatal crash a day, about 2500 serious injuries every year in Massachusetts.

BY CARS

Keep your eye on the ball. Every e-bike is a car off the road.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

It absolutely socks she got run over by an ebike, and something should be done about it. Im glad she's here to tell her story.

If it was a car, there would be no story to tell. So prioritize work accordingly.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Every e-bike is a car off the road.

People by ebikes for leisure use as well, not just as a mode of transportation. I have two ebikes and they haven't cut down my car use at all.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think the proper term here is coresampled

The end caps are there for a reason.

[–] reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Survivorship bias.