In the midwest there is so much space/land in the suburbs you could run parallel bike/golf-cart lanes - probably speed limit them to 25 MPH. If you had protected pathways for small electric transport I would imagine people would get on board.

Oddly many of the neighbors seem to already have golf carts in their garages ... I guess to tool around the neighborhood? (Christ, can't you even walk to the pickleball court, ha ha?)