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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:
I used to sell snow cones out of something similar when I was a teenager.
That's obviously a quadcycle automobile.
It's an ECO vehicle but putting pedals on a car doesn't make it a bicycle. The volume and space it uses is also important.
Are the small wheels also for a loophole? Because, ouch.
And the bottom-open cabin...
the loophole is... that there are pedals that must be used in order for the electric motors to kick in... a lot of e-bikes also use the same loophole... as long as the pedals are being used, it is basically a motorcycle (with sometimes insane speeds and acceleration)
I don't understand DC, but I could see Amazon making a smaller vehicle to fit into tighter space