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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13081471

Alrighty,

So your system knows the exact situation and still is slowing down my bike, just at the moment I need to accelerate to avoid being overrun by that large truck heading into me.

How stupid are these folks? We've got rules, when people don't follow those rules, you fine them. Case closed.

No system to prevent a bike speeding, teach people to obey the law.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So... after reading the article, i think that this is an even better idea than i thought before i had read it! Very interesting and good initiative by the city when fast ebikes stop people from using bikes all together!

This plan does something to cyclists’ sense of freedom,” she acknowledged. “On the other hand, their current freedom also affects the freedom of others. Their speeding now limits this

My original comment:

Increasing speed will very rarelly save you from an accident. Slowing down, or braking will.

If in any case you need to move away from something combing at you, a higher top speed will not help you. Acceleration will though and ebikes still have that.

If you're going full speed, more speed will not get you away from a truck moving towards you. You're much better off stopping or slowing down or even turning