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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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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Yup. I have two family members who were in serious cycling accidents. One was from a stone that he didn't see. He didn't have a helmet on and almost didn't make it.

The second was city incompetence, which resulted in a crash on a bike path. They were wearing a helmet and probably only survived because of it.

I was on a group ride a few weeks back, and one guy's bike slipped from under him (wet metal bridge) and his head slammed into metal. His helmet destroyed, but he carried on like nothing happened.