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

If you've ever flown you've depended on fly by wire systems to keep you safe and I personally don't see systems like this for land vehicles to be necessarily any less safe inheritanly. The main issues with all these things that I see is that auto manufacturers seem to be raking increasingly cavalier attitudes to vehicle safety and reliability these days in an effort to squeeze ever more profits.

[–] Everythingispenguins 7 points 1 year ago

Steer by wire in cars has neither the redundancy nor the oversight/certification that the system in planes does. But more importantly is actually a better system for a car? Is there something that mechanical power assisted steering can't do that would warrant the need for steer by wire?

[–] grue 1 points 1 year ago

If you’ve ever flown you’ve depended on fly by wire systems to keep you safe

If I'm flying it means I've already decided to put my trust in a pilot and it's up to him to manage the risk of systems failures, not me. It's an entirely different thing.

Now, if I were piloting a small plane myself, then it would be comparable -- but I'd probably want to have mechanical linkages between the yoke and the control surfaces in that case, too!