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Parents Are Accidentally Buying Their Kids Electric Motorcycles Instead Of E-Bikes
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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"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.
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Sounds like the issue is that the metric people should be using is maximum speed, because that's the main thing that makes it unsafe, but this is not clear to them