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

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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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Last September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB-1271, which redefines and adds to several electric bicycle regulations in...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, then you want a moped. And that's fine. But you need to understand why there are many people who want to preserve the distinction here for some very real reasons, largely involving how dangerous these vehicles have become in densly populated areas. Nobody is saying you can't have a throttle driven moped. You just cannot also have all the privileges of a bicycle at the same time.

[โ€“] anindefinitearticle 2 points 3 days ago

Ok, but a class 3 ebike doesn't have the characteristic or riding dynamics of a motorcycle, which is what you used above to define a moped.

I don't want a moped because I don't want to register/license/insure it, because I much prefer the exercise and riding dynamics of an ebike, and because they are too fast and dangerous to be used as casually as I use my bike.