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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

I think all they mean by that is they don't depend on external sensor data for this. The motor has internal sense of the speed, either through dedicated speed pickup, or through the rotor hall sensors. At least that's my interpretation.