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:

  • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    I’d argue it’s not a bike because bi means 2, but this has 4 (wheels). But the ke part comes from cycle and there seems to be a cycle thing going on. Can i propose we call it a quacle? Qua because it’s the first part of quad, and cle because its the last part of cycle. Also when it quacles by it gives off quacle vibes imo.

        • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          The opposite leg stance in the image make these look like rods off of a center ctrank. And its a beam frame. Here if you have an electric bike but it has e-assist pedals rather than a hand throttle then its considerable a bicycle for road rules.

          Here’s another 4 wheeler “bike” from Amazon delivery

          From the DC article.

          “The cargo ‘e-bikes’ use electric bicycle drivetrains and include pedals with a pedal-by-wire system common in three- and four-wheeled cargo e-bikes that translates the user’s pedal power into forward motion via an electric motor.”

          As much as this is no longer a bike, its still a bike by law sadly

        • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          As much as I don’t think it is a bike, that’s the definition in my province, and can act as a bike. If it accelerates by pedal force(even if assistated) rather than a throttle, and is sped limited, it is classed the same as a regular pedal bike.