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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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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

as effective as medicine

as beneficial as popping a daily pill

Professor Tegtbur describes the health effect as “almost as good as a medicine.”

Sorry, what "medicine" are we talking about here? I don't deny that electric bikes could be good for health but what in the world is this being compared too?