micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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Yeah it does seem kinda terrifying.
People "hurt themselves" with regular skateboards, but this is another level - easily able to produce permanent injury and disfigurement.
There's some element of "use responsibly" of course - appropriate safety gear, environment, and skills - but the consequences of a mistake in this case seem higher than most other sports.
You can most certainly get an unpowered board going that fast, but usually they're downhill skaters that took a good amount of time to learn to deal with those speeds and they scout the route ahead before they go.
I don't think I've ever gone faster than 30mph on a board but even that speed was absolutely terrifying and it's a miracle young me didn't end up in the hospital: One pebble could've killed me and I wasn't even riding a downhill board (just a street board I cranked the trucks down on, super stupid).