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Just downvoting because “smart cities” and their massive data collection by private actors is down right evil
For that same reason it sounds distopical. And yeah, they suck
Downvote, because you disagree with a minor thing, ok?
Increase hospital use, yup. I missed RustConf 2019 and instead took a trip to the ER with a fractured vertebra. Haven’t been on once since then.
I don’t get the craze behind electric scooters. If you can afford one, why not just get an electric bike? Plus, e-bikes can carry cargo, have higher speeds, deal with rough terrain better, and even with the battery dead you can still use it as a normal bike without it getting exhausting like pushing an unpowered scooter.
And if you can’t afford one, a normal bike is 75% the utility of an electric bike. While an unpowered scooter is a toy at best.
In this case, it was a Lime scooter. I rented it to provide the last mile transportation between a bus line and the conference. I guess for the rental use case, the main argument is that a scooter just costs less. That said, my city now has an electric bike program that I would have used instead if it had existed.
I have an e-bike and for the life of me I can’t remember why I didn’t just use that for all or part of the trip. It wasn’t even very far, maybe 3-4 miles. Instead I got to spend my wedding and honeymoon in a back brace.
Where’s micro districts? Soviet cities used those to make most if not all errands easily walkable, only minutes away on foot.
