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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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"If you asked most owners of these e-bikes about which they’d give up if they had to, they’d probably tell you “take my 21-28 mph speed but leave me my throttle”."

This seems like a bad take. Do most people really only ride on the throttle?

I'll keep my higher speed and lose the throttle, thanks. How about a non-stupid firmware update that locks to 20 if a throttle is connected, and unlocks to 28 if there isn't one?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

An instant full throttle of 750 watts is really not that hard of a push. It's not gonna get away from you.

Commonly, the brake lever functions as a motor cutoff. So, sitting at a stop light, you can still move the pedals without activating the motor if you squeeze the brake a little.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

on my ebike, I get an instant 50w from pedal movement. Takes 3 revolutions before I get full throttle. 50w is not too bad, but still jarring, and 750w would have caused big problems in some past cases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Come to think of it, I do have my controller set to ramp up to full power over the course of like 1 second, instead of coming on instantly.