High car prices have pushed people towards to the micromobility sector, where much smaller vehicles offer greater flexibility for a fraction of the cost.

  • PhilipTheBucketA
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    10 hours ago

    I am not an enthusiast. I just know some people who are.

    I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. EUCs are faster and more powerful, to the point that you’ll need a lot of safety gear or else you might get really badly hurt. People get passionate about them and carry them everywhere and get carried away with tinkering with them, and it becomes part of their personality. But they are useful to the point of becoming a part of your transportation method. You have to carry it with you, which is less convenient than nothing but more convenient than having to find a place to put a whole car or bicycle.

    The two are similar in the sense of being one-wheel vehicles you stand on, but their niches are different enough that it makes sense to me that the groups are pretty disjoint. I don’t know of any “group” for one-wheels analogous to the one for EUCs.