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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.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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They’re fast. Pedestrians are furious: ‘fat’ ebikes divide Australian beach suburbs (www.theguardian.com)

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Popular among teenagers, the large electric bikes have triggered ‘numerous complaints’ to councils as fears grow for the safety of riders and pedestrians

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That said, regulation sucks and it’s be way more fun to just go 50kmph on a bike with just a throttle. But then you are not really a bike anymore. Probably more of an electric motorcycle and would need a license and be constrained to roads.

Indeed, then they should fall under the same legal definition as a motorcycle, with tags, insurance, driving licence, etc.