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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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[–] treadful 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What I hate about this, is that every time it comes up, nobody ever really goes into details of why. What is no longer safe? What breaks down? Or is it updated standards? Just fucking get into the reasons so people can make rational choices, instead of just saying "trust me bro."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] treadful 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn't explain anything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

UV light damages the plastics that the helmet is made of. Impacts, even small impacts, compress the foam. Temperature fluctuations burst the bubbles in the foam and cause stress which weakens the plastic.

The paragraph explains why even if it doesn’t explain how.

[–] treadful -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does not provide enough information to make a rational decision with. Especially when that's the entire focus of the article.

Even the level of detail in your post would have been an improvement, even though it's still significantly lacking.

If you want to take advice from vague blog spam that's your business. I'd prefer not to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Didn’t say you had to. You do you.

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