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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bicycles already have a serial number under crankshaft.

All am saying is for either government or manufacturer to issue a standardized plastic card to indicate ownership. Doesn't even have to have a name on it. Just serial number and bike description or whatever. So whoever steals your bike will have to steal the card as well making it significantly harder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless there's a way to verify authenticity, which would require central registration of some sort (good luck with that), such a card would be easily faked. It'd impact legit owners more than actual thieves, since many people would probably lose theirs at some point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Central registration exists already. The two big ones are Project 529 and Bike Index. I highly recommend them. Bike theft is down in Vancouver even while ridership has skyrocketed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You might be right, but bike theft is rampant and needs to be stopped. Especially as we are looking to get over climate problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can have a “public key/private key” system, so the code on the card is matched with but is not the same as the code on the bike.