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:

  • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    5 days ago

    I hate these from a workers rights perspective. Safety, exploiting workers literal calorie intake to offset energy cost, if the vehicle is this big it’s not at all reasonable to call this a bike. I’m sorry. I hate this. It’s only purpose is for Amazon to capitalize on and destroy cities that have begun to build good bike infrastructure. Ban these now. Or significantly reduce their size. They’re going to bother both cars and bikes because these will be blocking bike paths EVERYWHERE and driving slowly on streets with cars. This is literally a situation that car and bike people can unite on. Fuck this.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      31·
      5 days ago

      It’s not a bike. Bikes have two wheels. Also, plenty of jobs require physical labor.

      • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        We’re obviously using “bike” to mean a vehicle allowed in a bike lane. Is a trike not allowed in a bike lane? Better ban these!

        When people here are saying that the OP vehicle is “not a bike” we are saying it exceeds the limits of what should be allowed to occupy bike infrastructure.

        Also, it’s not about physical labor. It’s about the CHANGE to the required physical labor and who is paying for it. The job just got more physically intense and I promise you the pay isn’t going up enough to compensate for that.

        I don’t understand replies like this. I mean do you get on the internet and look for comments you can purposely misunderstand?