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I’m Creating Tiny Homes to End Sleeping on the Street After My Brother Became Homeless
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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 useful and needed as these might be, I can only imagine that anyone actually living in one would be constantly harassed by local authorities for parking/zoning violations.
Society needs to be better!
I'm imagining waking up in the middle of the night to someone riding the whole thing away with me still in it
Ideally there's a way to lock it down from the inside. A bar through the back wheel(s) or something.
But then they might lock you down inside!
You can do this with anything in life, ever, though.
An example being, "A stationary house? But what if the river rises? How will I move my home away from it?"
Lol I dunno, somebody wrapping up a tiny little cube as a prank seems a bit more likely than the tide rising above normal
You'd have to shrink-wrap more than 84,500 buildings in the US by 2050 if you want to compete with ocean-level rise from climate change. Warning; pdf link.
My comment talked about rivers rising, but you said the ocean, so I went with the ocean for my reply.