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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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[–] sours@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are there not already laws about being reckless in public areas? Why are we not enforcing those? Why do we need new specific ones about bikes?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not that I'm arguing the merits of your argument. But there is a ton of degens from upstate who are buying super powerful ones from the various cheap China sites. And are a legit menace in New Jersey.

I think this regulation wouldn't even be considered if there wasn't people going 60 in a 25 around there.

Again you're correct that they are obviously not enforcing laws already on the book. But I think a large portion of the pedestrian population are in support of this cause of those idiots.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I mean to be fair these aren't new devices and new modes of transportation and devices often require new laws specific to those devices. Well yes the laws on the books are important they may not cover all aspects of that.