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:

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    251·
    1 month ago

    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.
    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      I would give actual quads and trikes a pass still but not these. Not everyone is physically capable of riding a standard bike and I will almost certainly lose the ability in time.

    • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 month ago

      *“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.

      • WatermelonPaloma@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        100% they don’t want to pay for air-con. That can get expensive in the summer months. Better to remove the option all together.