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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Maybe it is. We had several issues and accidents here with elder people and ebikes that resulted from loss of control or insufficient brake use. Of course those bikes have hydraulic disc brakes here, too, but my personal theory is that many older riders who grew up with rim brakes are afraid to use modern braking systems because they are so powerful.
So the list of ebikers hitting something (mostly in the dark), running off the road in curves, or hitting people (often in places where they did not belong in the first place, like pedestrian zones) has become a real issue here.
Most of it is either self-inflicted, or accidents with pedestrians where the biker is at fault.