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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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It's less about the vehicle, I would imagine, and more about the speed.
Yeah, just peddling your bike along a plateau or uphill, you probably wouldn't be going fast enough to be killed by it. Thrown off your bike and hurt, potentially seriously/fatally, sure, but I don't think it'd be likely.
Going downhill though, approaching speeds a dirt bike could do? I could see that decapitating/killing someone, particularly if they use wire. If someone were looking to do harm, they'd put the wires at the bottom of a hill or grade.
But, I've mostly only seen this kind of stuff done on trails frequented by motorcyclists, presumably because the local residents/homeowners don't like the noise of the engines or how they may tear up the trails. Which, to me, is like moving next to a farm and then shooting at the cows because they moo...