micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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Once again, shame on the editor for distorting what the author wrote, using a clickbait headline when the article can stand on its own. No, there is no "inconvenient truth" in the article, but rather a sober discussion of the fluid colloquial definitions of "moped" and "scooter", as a result of technological change being much faster than the written language can adapt, all while legal language remains as tight (and impenetrable) as it's ever been.
On that latter point, I will rehash what I wrote earlier:
This is all to say, California explicitly allows certain non-pedal, electric two-wheelers to be mopeds. But also the original, pedal, combustion two-wheelers are also mopeds. Rather than quibbling on definitions, this state would rather people go out riding.