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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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[–] dlpkl 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Cool tech, but just like steer by wire, I wouldn't trust it in a life or death situation

[–] Guest_User 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Many modern cars are moving to steer by wire. Serious question, why wouldn't you trust your life to that when you very likely already do for acceleration and possibly for braking (depending on your vehicle).

[–] dlpkl 1 points 1 year ago

In my case, my personal car is still old school or "analog" in those areas. I think that in the case of new cars, manufacturers make so many different models that I can't trust they've put the time into debugging and failure-proofing their software. Even the most reliable car brands have occasional hardware recalls, and software glitches in their media systems are fairly common. I'll need to do more research about what failsafes they have in place, but I'd feel more confident with a mechanical linkage than software

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