@Archie8 @lostgen @davidho I wouldn't ride one in the rain. I could take it seriously if you were talking hybrid pedal/electric velomobiles, but those require even more parking space than mopeds, and you're right back at having to mess up city design to solve the problem of parking spaces, not a lot of improvement vs. the "cars for everyone" scenario.

Really the best for cities would be walk everywhere if it's a short distance, take public transport if it's longer distance, special lanes allowed for emergency services, and taxis allowed only for special cases like people with disabilities (should need a registration or written justification for taking a taxi). And get personal cars off the streets to ensure every other mode of transport works way better (personal cars are the biggest source of unpredictability in traffic, the main reason automated driving is proving to be such a hard problem - they stupidly assumed we should maintain a world of chaotic personal cars that are all eachother's potential enemies that must be carefully watched by cameras at all times, when they could've made it all just one central algorithm per city and hugely simplified the problem).