micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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This is not exactly unheard of and is in line with many other locales. For instance, I once watched a guy get arrested for DUI while operating one of those Rascal style mobility scooters, because he was drunk as a skunk and also riding it up the shoulder of a public road.
All that aside, I disagree with the current apparent fascination of limiting the mobility of minors with criteria that are based only on the amount of effort expended on the part of the rider. Nobody in the western world bats an eye if kids ride a pedal powered bicycle anywhere. But as soon as you strap a motor do it, ye gods forbid, everybody loses their fucking minds.
Nah fluff that, if you're allowed to walk drunk then a mobility aid you need to get anywhere shouldn't count as a DUI. "Shoulder of a public road"? How many places in the US don't have a footpath?
Plenty, granted. But in this case there was a footpath (or rather, a sidewalk as we style them here) which the guy could have used but he didn't.