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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] 11 points 10 months ago

Also new potential injuries. I wonder what OSHA has to say about this? Progress is great, but I do agree that this is pushing the boundary in places when there are probably lots of other areas that could be improved for similar results. The money for this probably came out of a different bucket, to use the business lingo, and I've always hated that accounting excuse...seeing expensive toys being bought for one purpose while workers deal with old and broken crap because their "bucket" budget was strained. From a Fortune 400 company...