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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I can't work out how this thing operates as a skateboard. How the fuck do you turn without bottoming the rail things out every time? take silly wide shallow turns?
how the fuck do you write this much about a design when it obviously doesn't work as the thing it's intended to be?
It turns the wheels, based on this image. It's not a skateboard, it's an rc car you stand on top of.
And if you look at that image for more than a second, you'll see that it's just car parts scaled down to a scale that wouldn't be physically possible. That brace caliper assembly is the size of a thumbnail.
TYVM, didn't see that ridiculous tiny brembo dear lord what a strange thing
Even if that system could work reliably, it would handle worse than a normal skateboard and those weird... I don't know, fenders I guess? Whatever they are, they'd pose a serious hazard for catching on debris.
and curbs, and cracks, and leaves and god knows what else... designed to fling the rider violently away from the deck