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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
Edit: I found a slightly higher-quality version of the image:
shouldn't you have to be able to manually pedal an e bike for it to qualify as an e bike.
These are just using other existing loopholes, like for Party bikes.
You would lose out on a lot of other stuff to get rid of them.
Don't fucking park them in the bike lane
Ahh, a western Took Took!
Ahh, I now understand the need for max 250w motor. Also hope a judge can be real, use his head, and just say: "nope, not a bike" .. bi-cycle, isn't that word from two wheels?
don't care, if it says Amazon it needs to burn.
That's all that matters.
I'm confused, isn't this fuck cars? isn't this not a car? We all have Bez but this is seemingly a great way to not have a bunch of Amazon trucks mucking up inner city streets. Even in the no cars utopia, we still need to get shit to places. I would much prefer using these and turning 2 lane roads in to pedestrian/bike traffic with a one way "freight bike" lane. Bunch of mutha fuckkggin reactionaries out here.
I want one to use as a camper!
I would love to see this guy pedal that thing without the electric motor.
If you can’t do that, is it remotely a “bike”?
Bicycle: a vehicle with two wheels tandem, handlebars for steering, a saddle seat, and pedals by which it is propelled
These fucking things better not be on the bike lanes.
How does this death trap works In the winter? Or is this only for the southern states?
I mean, for the driver? They’d probably do what all the food app drivers do in winter in DC, handlebar muffs, cold weather gear. The summer is what would suck ass hard, I mean, that windshield is going to eliminate your main cooling.
For those tiny ass wheels on poorly plowed sidewalks and roads? Probably die.
I know where these are in DC, I'll try to get some better pics tomorrow
You guys are never happy. They recycle used popemobiles, isn't that good?
Electric truck.
As long as they don't park in the bike lanes these things are mostly fine. In car-centric countries/cities they're probably not the best choice.
It's fine as long as it's limited to about 40kmph zones. Its basically same as goods rickshaw in India or motor tricycle in Philippines.
I hate these from a workers rights perspective. Safety, exploiting workers literal calorie intake to offset energy cost, if the vehicle is this big it's not at all reasonable to call this a bike. I'm sorry. I hate this. It's only purpose is for Amazon to capitalize on and destroy cities that have begun to build good bike infrastructure. Ban these now. Or significantly reduce their size. They're going to bother both cars and bikes because these will be blocking bike paths EVERYWHERE and driving slowly on streets with cars. This is literally a situation that car and bike people can unite on. Fuck this.