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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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"If you asked most owners of these e-bikes about which they’d give up if they had to, they’d probably tell you “take my 21-28 mph speed but leave me my throttle”."

This seems like a bad take. Do most people really only ride on the throttle?

I'll keep my higher speed and lose the throttle, thanks. How about a non-stupid firmware update that locks to 20 if a throttle is connected, and unlocks to 28 if there isn't one?

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This seems like a bad take. Do most people really only ride on the throttle?

I think people realise that highspeed is far more dangerous for everyone than throttle, and throttle have far more use case than higher speed, which i kinda agree.

For instance, i can kick-start my momentum easily if i forgot to switch it down to lower gear, or when i need to start moving uphill from a slope, or when i have a lot of grocery at the back and need to push it back to my garage, or when i have a flat and have to push the bike for a distance. I'm sure there's more that i haven't encounter.