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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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As an aside, metric conversions of US customary speed and distances are convenient in that they almost perfectly align to powers of two for typical land speeds.
5 mph ~ 8 kph
10 mph ~ 16 kph
20 mph ~ 32 kph
40 mph ~ 64 kph
80 mph ~ 128 kph
The other common speed limits in the USA are thus bitwise compositions, which Computer Science folks might appreciate:
15 mph ~ 24 kph (16+8)
25 mph ~ 40 kph (32+8)
35 mph ~ 56 kph (32+16+8)
45 mph ~ 72 kph (64+8)
50 mph ~ 80 kph (64+16)
55 mph ~ 88 kph (64+16+8)
65 mph ~ 104 kph (64+32+8)
Had the 1980s US metrication effort succeeded, we could have seen those same limits rounded off to: 25, 40, 55, 70, 80, 90, and 100 or 110 kph.
For reference, common speeds around the world are 15, 20, 30, 50, 80, 90, and 100 kph