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, that's definitely not something that should be sharing space with pedestrians. Where I live, the maximum speed that's allowed without a driver's licence is 15 km/h, and it's legal to drive the classic mobility scooters anywhere - sidewalk, road, bicycle lane are all fine. Most of them seem to have a maximum speed of 6 km/h (you don't even need insurance for them at that speed).
Trouble with these enclosed models is that it doesn't seem like it's actually safe for them to drive on a road (or at 30 km/h, imagine colliding with a lantern pole at that speed ...), so the only place that might be alright for them is the bicycle lane. But even on a bicycle lane, I question the ability and willingness of their drivers to drive safely enough at 30 km/h to not endanger the people they're sharing the lane with. E-bikes are already an issue at a maximum of 25 km/h (especially when their drivers are elderly), this adds potentially another 5 km/h and a mostly false sense of security on top.
Not to mention how much more it weighs than an e-bike...