{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "as a motorcyclist, how do you feel about all those new e-bikeshares and byrd scooters and dockless hoverboards and whatever? do...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/185367387213/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: as a motorcyclist, how do you feel about all those new e-bikeshares and byrd scooters and dockless hoverboards and whatever? do you see a near future where tons of people daily commute gadgets that are essentially cheaper, speed-limited motorbikes that are also taken outside automobile-centric legal and insurance framework that motorbikes live in? </div>\n<p>There was a scooter share demo in Portland and the killer app seemed to be barcrawling between locations too far apart to walk so like at 11:30 at night there&rsquo;d be packs of 20somethings slaloming down the road at full speed racing each other and woooooing all the way and I was like &ldquo;this seems like a problem for\u2026 someone else!&rdquo;</p>"}