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CityLab Daily: The Micromobility Gold Rush
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Tire festival: The micromobility gold rush is just beginning, and well, there’s a lot of little vehicles to show for it. At last week’s Micromobility Conference in the Bay Area, gyroscopic skates, pedal-powered pontoon boats, and even unicycles were presented as plausible ways of getting around without a car. (At one point, a motorized office desk made an appearance, too.) With the explosion of shared bikes and scooters over the past few years, almost no concept seems too far-fetched; in the past four years, global investors have thrown more than $5.7 billion at micromobility startups.