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
    323·
    12 days 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
      11·
      12 days 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
      122·
      11 days 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
        4·
        11 days 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.

      • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
        65·
        11 days ago

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

        • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          92·
          11 days ago

          “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.

          • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
            25·
            11 days ago

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

            • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              11 days ago

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

              • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
                11·
                11 days 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.

        • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
          21·
          11 days ago

          Oh yeah, because Amazon has such a great trackrecord of wanting to reduce their carbon footprint.

          • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
            11·
            11 days ago

            They do. Out of most companies they do. Fuck them for so many things. But they are the only company using a huge fleet of electric vehicles and other ways they have reduced things.

    • FundMECFS@piefed.zipEnglish
      5·
      11 days 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.