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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As a disabled person who can't drive, I ride my ebike everywhere. I can easily fit a week's worth of groceries because it's a cargo bike, which makes it even easier to balance and steer because of the way it's weighted.

Im lucky to live in an area that is becoming increasingly bike friendly. 10 years ago I barely left the house because it wasn't safe to ride on the road, and I couldn't afford uber/taxi, and there were no accessible bus stops near me.

When something is more than 20km away I will take a bus or an uber - but there's no reason that uber couldn't be a microcar, or a light vehicle (like an electric version of the old milkman lorries) for those that need ramp access or electric wheelchair transport.

At the moment in many places, disabled people are already forced to use paratransit systems because adaptive cars and taxi services are prohibitively expensive.

There will always be a need for some people, and some communities to have and depend on cars. The goal is to reduce this to as few people as possible by making it easier for those that are able to choose other methods.