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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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(BRAIN) — Tern is asking retailers to be on the lookout for 48 of its bikes and e-bikes that were stolen while in transport by rail from Los Angelas to a Tern warehouse in Illinois last month.The company is working with law enforcement and insurers following the theft of a container of bikes worth a total of about $170,000.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll put extra security on my containers.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like you can buy one for a good deal

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

I love when the value of stolen goods from a company is always based on selling price, and not actual cost to produce.

But for regular folk, the value of an item is depreciated into oblivion when you have to report it as stolen to your insurance company!

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Finally maybe I can afford one!

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Misread the title and pictured a bunch of people riding around on bikes somehow taking off with a cargo container.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Forklift operators hate this one weird trick!

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

This harkens to a Half As Interesting video (YT or Nebula) about trains being robbed at a very particular point in Southern California, between the port and the regional rail yard.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

This sounds exclusively like the insurers' problem.