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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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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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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No.

But put that technology in an electric motorbike that requires a licence, registration and insurance - Hell Yeah!

Here's an interesting clip.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This should be regulared. At the very least, require any user to be an organ donor

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Bold of you to assume there will be organs left.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

No way the brakes can handle that.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 34 points 5 days ago (3 children)

LMAO… yeah go 100mph on a scooter.

What could possibly go wrong…..

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I see an increase in the dashcam videos with someone on a 100mph scooter wiping out or crashing into a vehicle.

Better wear full on motorcycle gear when riding these things and have your will up to date.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

I saw a one wheel guy doing at least 40mph the other day. He was all kitted out in leathers and a very blinky helmet. Looked like a motorcycle that the front had fallen off of.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

If you go frame by frame you can literally see the moment they stop being human and start being raspberry jam

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Half-Life gibbed sound effect

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Lmao, 100mph is illegal in many European countries. Even in highways.

That’s a meat crayon machine

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Can't wait to see someone riding this at 100 mph in the bike lane, wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

100 mph on the highway between the lanes like sport bike riders...

[–] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

I'll see your two people and raise you to the whole family, Vietnam-style.

An image of 5 people riding one motorbike.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Make it two drunk people.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Fuck, imagine driving on the interstate going 60 in your car, and you see a dude on a scooter catching up to you on it, waving hello to you.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

At the 100 mph with such small wheels, you would not have enough time to react between when a small rock appeared clearly in view and when it stops you dead in your tracks.

I would know as someone who faceplanted after a skateboard wheel hit a pebble so small I never saw it.

I’d like to laws requiring a larger minimum diameter on e-scooter wheels.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I would know as someone who faceplanted after a skateboard wheel hit a pebble so small I never saw it.

yeah this is why I switched to longboards with big goofy soft wheels. they eat pebbles and cracks

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Wow, you stirred up an old memory of Garrett Hill's Coffee Slam

https://youtu.be/NulgtJrRfPQ

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Great illustration of a pro skateboard vs a pebble.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Fuck pebbles, I got one lodged into some 54mm 95s once. I was able to tuck and roll into some grass but the wheel rolled funny after that.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean they'd help with overpopulation.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

While that is true, it will also reduce overpopultation with regards to his victims.

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Excellent Darwin tool 😆

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Such plentiful organs. - Zim

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

When I was walking my dog's in the park late at night I watched a dude eat total shit on one of those mono wheel things. It was on pavement, and he got pretty scraped up. I can't imagine how wrecked a person should get if they were going 100mph on a scooter.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yay, murder suicide machines are here!

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me, but the preferred nomenclature is "meat crayon dispenser".

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Until you find yourself in the path of one of those assholes, then it's either lights out or maybe continue life as a vegetable

These things must be prohibited, period

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

I love The Suicide Machines!

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Well, that's fucking stupid.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 days ago

Rhetorical question? Of course not.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago (17 children)

When I was 20 I would have gone for this in a heartbeat, now at almost 50 I find myself thinking 15mph is too fast on my escooter.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That thing can't be interstate legal. But it would be really funny until it isn't

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

No.

... but I want one.

[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Motorcycles have terrible brakes to begin with. That thing probably takes ten football fields to stop.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Motorcycles have terrible brakes to begin with.

What are you on about?

https://youtu.be/QCHsNoBEdrM

(screenshot from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDbWZiaUeDY)

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Lol, natural selection.

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