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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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Last September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB-1271, which redefines and adds to several electric bicycle regulations in...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't think anyone would be advocating for allowing gas powered mopeds traveling at 40kph (25mph) on the sidewalk but when it's electric they somehow feel differently about it.

I hear the gas powered moped coming.

Where ever we draw the line is going to be arbitrary

Where you draw the line is arbitrary. We can instead use facts and reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I didn't draw that line - the European Union did. They probably have their facts and reasons for that but please, enlighten me about how combining pedestrians and fast moving vehicles is more reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

please, enlighten me about how combining pedestrians and fast moving vehicles is more reasonable

I've made no claims except that I can hear a gas powered moped coming. The burden isn't upon me to explain.

They probably have their facts and reasons

Appeal to authority. Instead, explain why they reached their conclusions.