HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1247arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]fuckcars[email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareUranium3006@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agothe dockless rent-a-scooters need to go. privately owned escooters? great. dock based systems? also great. escooters littered all over the street? nah
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·1 year agoI don’t like them either but when Atlanta banned them pollution and traffic became significantly worse. They serve a purpose.
minus-squarefrostbikerlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·edit-21 year ago the dockless rent-a-scooters need to go Yeah, I get it. Private vehicles everywhere on the side of the street are an eyesore and take a ton of valuable public space. If at least e-scooters were as small as a car it wouldn’t be such a big deal to see them parked everywhere.
minus-squarekamenoko@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThey’re also stupid dangerous to use and provide almost no protection if a car finds you, or you hit something the wrong way and go flying.
the dockless rent-a-scooters need to go. privately owned escooters? great. dock based systems? also great. escooters littered all over the street? nah
I don’t like them either but when Atlanta banned them pollution and traffic became significantly worse. They serve a purpose.
Yeah, I get it. Private vehicles everywhere on the side of the street are an eyesore and take a ton of valuable public space. If at least e-scooters were as small as a car it wouldn’t be such a big deal to see them parked everywhere.
They’re also stupid dangerous to use and provide almost no protection if a car finds you, or you hit something the wrong way and go flying.