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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen non-steer by wire cars in the ditch because the steering failed. The failure modes for software is different, but things like tie rod ends still break, and the older car the more likely that type of thing is to happen.

[–] grue 1 points 1 year ago

Steer-by-wire cars would still have tie-rod ends etc., though. In other words, they have all the same failure modes as purely mechanical steering, plus additional ones introduced by the servos and computers.

And sure, maintenance on old cars is a thing, but every car gets old eventually so there's not a real difference there.