micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: 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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Florida, I knew it!
Though it's actually not what I expected. It's a town known for being anti-car. There was just a fatal accident with a 12yo riding an e-bike.
A 12 year old on an ebike killed a 66 year old that was riding a bicycle at night without lights. Maybe set age limits? Is the solution too obvious? Traffic education and enforcement?
All the laws to prevent this tragedy already exist, except maybe limiting powered bicycles on public travel ways to licensed drivers/riders. Bicycles (powered or not) are vehicles and require appropriate lighting at night or when conditions otherwise would require it for a car. That 66 year old would have been exposed to much more safety education about bicycle helmets over the course of their life than that 12 year old. I have trouble feeling bad for the 66 year old when that kid is going to carry the weight of that death for the rest of their life. Everything about this situation is awful though so it's understandable that the town may have overcorrected based on emotion.
That 12 year old's parents are in the shit too.