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Image description:
Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.
Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck
Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile
The description of the vehicle is:
"Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck"
There's really nothing about that vehicle that's bicycle-like. First of all, it has more than 2 wheels, so it's not a bicycle. In addition, you don't move it by pedalling. You also sit inside it, not on it.
It's really more of a cross between a golf cart and a delivery truck. It might legally get through loopholes meant for bicycles, but there's nothing about it that looks bicycle-like.
To be clear, that was just a description I quickly made up for the post. I've been trying to make more of an effort to caption my image posts with text, in order to make them more disability-friendly and accessible.