Thoughts? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
 

Image description:


Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.

Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck

Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile


Edit: I found a slightly higher-quality version of the image:

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[–] 28 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I'm fine with these as long as they don't use the bike lanes. Nothing with more then two wheels should use the bike lane because:

  1. You can't pass them or let them pass you
  2. They seem less safe. They aren't quite car levels of soundproofed bubble, but they have significantly less awareness then a bike since you cant see behind you without a mirror. They are also going to weigh a lot more and the more mass going into a crash the worse it's going to be.
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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    *"I'm fine with these..." *

    You know the entire point here was likely to deny the drivers climate control and whatever X continuous hours of operation before mandatory 12 hours away type laws apply to people who operate vehicles professionally? They want people to burn/freeze and frantically move until they die on 72 hour shifts without overtime pay.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    That's idiotic. The point of these is to drop their carbon footprint. These are a good thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "Drop their carbon footprint"

    Bezos laughs at you while he takes a helicopter to his jet to another helicopter to the smaller yacht that transports him to his actual yacht.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Still stuck on bezos when he isn't in charge anymore eh. Maybe figure out there are many others involved.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Jassy shit in your milkshake. You're not getting invited to the yacht party BTW, you temporarily embarrassed millionaire

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Nope. I just know that there are many others getting rich as fuck and bezos isn't CEO anymore. People get distracted by one person and don't blame the entire C suite or the board.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Exactly. The problem with these is them monopolising bike lanes. Apart from that they’re better than trucks in every way, quieter, less polluting, less dangerous, don’t emit cancer fumes.

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