The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Speeding Up Traffic

Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee... by mehhh on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:56AM (#20836256)

Mobility scooters make poor eBike platforms due to the direct electric drive, small radius tires. Hitting 10+mph in a mobility scooter is not likely to happen without serious modifications that are more costly than welding two eBikes together.

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Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee... by fanf2 on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:41AM (#20837354)

The world record is over 70mph but yes, seriously modified http://www.colinfurze.com/fastest-scooter.html

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Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee... by novok on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:05AM (#20836692)

But you can foresee a mobility scooter that was designed to go 1-20mph comfortably? They take up so much space and weigh so much you could probably make them street legal electric motorbikes.

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Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee... by pjc50 on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:13AM (#20837222)

Mobility scooters are designed to operate in pedestrian spaces, including indoors. Ones capable of 20mph would probably get banned from pedestrian areas, indoor operation, malls etc for the same reason you wouldn't let someone ride an electric motorbike up the corridors.

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