Mostly long-tail bikes, with racks. The main goal seems to be to be able to carry some kids along with maybe some groceries.

I do not like that saddle.

I’m generally a fan. I see a lot more people biking around my suburban sprawling American city, and I’ve noticed the majority now are ebikes. Probably half of those are cargo bikes, so they really seem to be enabling more trips outside a car, and that’s pretty great.

That price is so low, it might as well just be the customer list.

Edit: For the record, Juiced made some decent bikes. The HyperScorpion is a fun little moped, and I would have liked to have seen a refined version that improved on the battery design (they were really hard to put back in if you removed them for charging) and came with better stock tires.

Reagan International has great transit service (a stop on the Metro) so I wondered what the fuss was. Then I read the article and realized this project includes San Diego and San Jose, and it made more sense. But what made it really click was the bit at the end about airport employees. Airports are HUGE centers of employment, and employees need to be able to arrive and leave 24 hours a day. In that respect, this seems like a very good move.

Don’t forget the huge energy savings (heating/cooling, transportation, infrastructure) by having denser housing. It isn’t just a measurement of “I can see trees,” but all the daily human activities that have a reduced environmental impact in denser development. It’s counter-intuitive, but rural areas that are “nearer to nature” are often worse for the environment.

There is probably a break-even point, I don’t think everyone living in skyscrapers is ecologically ideal and I wouldn’t want to live there anyway. But medium-density development with multi-unit (shared wall) buildings allows huge energy costs, while also making public transit more viable and providing a tax base that actually pays for its own infrastructure.

Thanks for the rec! I also love that you presume that there will be a next time, cuz, uh, that’s accurate. These little boxes are powerhouses, I probably want one for a TV set-top box now that all the TV boxes (Roku, Amazon Fire, even Android TV and soon Apple TV) are riddled with ads.

Beelink and Minisforum are legit

I wish I knew a lot of this when I first started shopping for a mini PC. I ended up with a Beelink model that I’m quite happy with, but it seems almost luck that I didn’t pick another one, and I would have liked a “reputable brand” search function.

This is how it often works, people cry bloody murder until they get the human-oriented infrastructure and then most people love it and forget they ever complained about it.

Thanks, much easier! (I like that username, btw!)

America in a snapshot.

I found the LLM-generated image very off-putting. I would have rather seen some example vehicles like the ones described in the article.

Those are some tough and somewhat disparate goals for a single bike. Small/foldable is doable. Trails and sand are doable. Something that does both well enough to be worthwhile is a tall order. Maybe something like the Lectric XP 3.0 could manage it, but I don’t know.

I’d at least like a company I know I can contact. My first ebike was from Ariel Rider, and the battery failed 15 months after I bought it. Which sucked, but at least I could get support to buy a replacement battery, even though they didn’t sell that model anymore. The company also had support that helped me spec the right brake pads, etc. for maintenance. It’s still running fine now, chewing through tires, but if I had to buy one again, I’d probably pick a bike I could get serviced in a bike shop instead of fussing around with email support and trying to do the grease monkey work myself.

I’ve never heard of any of those bikes, but Onno’s comment is generally good advice.

I kind of think that a foldable ebike that weights that much reduces a lot of the utility of a folding bike. And that is a seriously heavy bike!

I dunno, BMW also made the i3 and then let it wither on the vine. We’ll see how they price/market/support it.

20 years ago I really trusted CNET reviews. Now they seem to read like ads. Is this scooter actually good? It could be, or it could be crap, I don’t know.

No more stick shifts or safety belts for this guy.

Fixed, thanks!

I guess its cheaper than building protected infrastructure to make things safer for everyone on the road.

Brutal but accurate.