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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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[โ€“] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

on dirt, their weight cause erosion. On pavement, they can injure their hooves

These problems would equally apply to the 'electric horse', would they not?

In the same way that torque/current-limited ebikes will cause less soil erosion in national parks -- case in point, Tahoe National Forest in California now explicitly permits Class 1 ebikes on trails, once they had enough data to support that assertion -- I would expect that an electric horse could also be tuned to limit its acceleration on tricky surfaces.