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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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This looks like a death trap tbh
Most micro mobility stuff does, but this looks more dangerous than usual. Being strapped into it could actually decrease safety and the lack of any kind of crumple zone means any crash is going to be broken limbs at best, fatal at worst
Death trap, oh come on...
Apart from this here obviously being some prototype/DIY/research project, it's pretty much the same as a delivery bike, e.g.: https://cargo.mubea-umobility.com/
Are those death traps? How many people have died in there? How many people have been killed by them?
Even fully loaded and at top speed, which is commonly limited at 25km/h in the EU, it maybe has 5 times the kinetic energy of a "normal bike".
A car at 50 km/h easily has 100 times the kinetic energy of a bike.
Yes, if you run that thing into a pedestrian, that probably wouldn't go well. But those accidents, even in countries with lots of cargo bikes, are extremely rare, all things considered.