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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
Well, it's better than an F150...
Much better visibility, easier to park, more cargo space...
Are the small wheels also for a loophole? Because, ouch.
And the bottom-open cabin...
not bottom open. or AI slop because then the shadows are wrong
But it was? Did i look wrong? Or OP swapped the picture?
I understand this confusion. I'm not sure what the truth is, but I get you.
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.
shouldn't you have to be able to manually pedal an e bike for it to qualify as an e bike.
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”?
I'd argue it's not a bike because bi means 2, but this has 4 (wheels). But the ke part comes from cycle and there seems to be a cycle thing going on. Can i propose we call it a quacle? Qua because it's the first part of quad, and cle because its the last part of cycle. Also when it quacles by it gives off quacle vibes imo.
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.
You guys are never happy. They recycle used popemobiles, isn't that good?
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.
Bicycle: a vehicle with two wheels tandem, handlebars for steering, a saddle seat, and pedals by which it is propelled
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.
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.