micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

IMO, this seems like something that would show up as military surplus equipment in the USA and thus end up with municipal police forces without a care about the civil liberty implications, whether or not actually deployed. I'm surprised the UK is beating us at our own game.

That said, even on this side of the pond, police departments have -- or should have -- policies to intercept motorbikes, which are likely the most applicable to stopping ebikes. It's hard for me to believe that only a technological solution is truly the most sensible option here than, say, designing roads so getaway vehicles simply can't develop sufficient speed in urban areas to be dangerous or effective at evading authorities.

My go-to example of such passive safety features are those outside of major sports stadiums in the USA here: decorative concrete planters, giant letters that spell the city's name, and plazas to congregate pre-game are all subtle, modern forms of bollards and defensible space. I cannot simultaneously believe we can build stadiums with passive safety to protect thousands of patrons, yet cannot build roads to stymie reckless, high speed getaways.

As an aside, this sounds somewhat like the TV license vans in the UK, the purported mobile detector for TVs in homes that haven't paid the UK's TV license fee. Although they sound plausible, no such vans have ever been truly demonstrated publicly, simply being a myth to convince people to pay the fee.