[mirthturtle]

Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes.

- costs next to nothing to charge

- fast and fun to get around

- never pay for parking

- cheap maintenance

- hauls groceries easily

- good exercise

[dharmab]

I do all my <3 mile trips on a ebike these days unless it's raining/snowing or I need to carry something large. It's great. The lifetime cost of ownership is a little more than my annual running costs for my car.

[ornornor]

To add, you can convert acoustic bikes to e-bikes with torque sensing using the tsdz2 which is pretty decent once flashed with the open source firmware by casainho.

[Shadowed_]

All of this applies to regular bikes even more :) Specially the last one.

[Der_Einzige]

Sorry, but many localities make it illegal for bicycle on the sidewalk (where they should be doing it). That's why many folks do it.

Laws making that illegal are extra stupid since it's relatively hard to kill a pedestrian with a bicycle but downright easy to kill a cyclist with a car.

[czottmann]

You mean roads?