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Image description:
Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.
Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck
Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile
Edit: I found a slightly higher-quality version of the image:
How to test if it's actually a bicycle:
I propose a simple ontological test by law enforcement. Simply steal one. If the police treat it like they do bicycle theft, it's a bicycle. If the police treat it like it's an auto theft, then it's an automobile.
If the police take the theft of one of these seriously, like they would a car theft, then point to that as justification for why they should be regulated like autos and banned from bike lanes. If the police treat it like bike theft....well....there's a lot of valuable materials in those loopholemobiles....and the police clearly aren't taking theft of them seriously...so....well the problem will solve itself.
That's kind of a dumb test. If I make a bicycle out of gold and diamonds and someone steals it, the theft will be taken seriously. Police just respond to crimes of different dollar amounts differently. It has nothing to do with the nature of this vehicle.
Edit. I haven't seen any more details on these vehicles, but it's clearly labeled a vehicle. I'm guessing it's registered and would be treated as an automobile theft.
That isn't really true. Police have a unique disdain for everything related to bicycling and cycling. Most cops are themselves morbidly obese, ideologically avoid exercise, and view bicyclists as hippies and fitness freaks who deserve to be run over. Police will go out of their way to not bring charges in the case of actual cyclists deaths. And they treat bicycle theft with active disdain, putting far fewer resources into bike theft than the value of the goods stolen would justify.
Is this satire? I can't tell it seems like you're serious but definitely reads as satire. Good luck.
Ahh, a western Took Took!
Electric truck.
Looks like a useful vehicle. Whatever else people decide to call it is their problem, not the driver's.
It's a problem of where this thing is allowed to drive. It's pretty huge for a bike lane.
Oh and it's also a problem of whether the you need a licence to drive it.
Weight, width and speed. That's all you have to look at. Just make lane wide enough.
You think it "looks useful" to replace the accelerator with ersatz pedals? The only sense it is useful is to work around legislation that was originally attempting to prevent this kind of thing.
On one hand it's fucking great for the environment.
On the other hand they're only doing this to avoid bare minimum requirements for drivers such as valid motor vehicle licenses and providing working A/C.
the fucking bike helmet
@fireweed
No pedals, so it's not an e-bike IMO.
@YimbyEarth @fireweed I don’t love how there has been a semantic shift so that mopeds stopped having to have pedals a long time ago, and now even ”bikes” don’t have to.
I did see a real electric cargo bike, it was not only DIY-ed from a broken mountain bike and a broken kid's bike, but also from a discarded electric roller that one could rent.
I used to sell snow cones out of something similar when I was a teenager.
The "Deutsche Post" uses bicycles to deliver the mail. I see nothing wrong with an e-bike to deliver parcels.