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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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There are people who try to bypass those also, or cheat em. Usually for some personal comfort. One of my sisters was like this. She wasn't that tall, and complained the seat belt shoulder part was uncomfortable, so she'd either not wear it or put that part behind her.
Then someone swung into her lane causing her to rear end em (she was in a moving normal speed lane and they were backed up in an exit lane). Without the seat belt there, what instead slowed her movement forward was the steering wheel shattering her jaw. She's fine now, but a painful lesson that included reconstructive surgery.
And does she wear a seat belt now?
Yep, I just meant there are too many people who don't use something until they get hurt, or something similar. I have a seatbelts on or I stop driving rule, and I do sometimes have to tell people. Including different siblings from the one who got hurt.
My ex wife was in one of those 1 in 1 million accidents where wearing a seatbelt would have done more damage than not wearing it. Now she never wears her seatbelt because "a doctor" once said in her particular one off experience he was glad she wasn't wearing one. SMH. I tried to explain how wearing a seatbelt is safer in almost every other account, but she doesn't listen. It's just a matter of time till my son doesn't have a mother anymore.
I also have a seatbelts on or I stop driving rule. A lot of people don't want rides from me after I enforce that rule. Like, I'm responsible for their lives as the driver. If they die because they aren't wearing their seatbelts while I was driving, it's my fault for not making them buckle up. I even have seatbelts for my dogs because I want them to be as safe as I am. Passengers lives' are in your hands when you drive. It's really scary if you actually think about it in depth.