A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
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
What's the advantage of one of these over a truck exactly?
Probably being able to go in bike lanes, shoulders, sidewalks, between cars, and other places where normal vehicles can't go. Generally this would be more flexible and nimble in last mile delivery.
That just reads to me as "able to weave recklessly around people" because I've seen how the bike messengers behave in my city.
They go slower, are less noisy, damage pavement less, the driver can get in and out easier and possibly doesn't need a licence
They've been around in Europe for ages. They're much more eco friendly. I don't notice any dislike from the operators, they still come out get out with a smile. And they don't have to wear helmets.
I know, I delivered mail using a quite large tricycle for a while. These things can't be that much different
Easier, cheaper and safer for last mile delivery in urban areas.
They are way cheaper I imagine.
In fact, I'd bet that's how it was made. They have a team design the cheapest possible delivery vehicle with no rules. Then it obviously can't be road legal, so they get a team of lawers to work on that. Someone realises if they add pedals and call it an Ebike, they get to ignore practically all regulations. So they did.