From the Patent to the Electric Bike: without Mandatory National Standard, Cities Impose Their Own Rules of Micromobility

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The accelerated development of micromobility in large Brazilian cities — a concept that includes light and individual low-power vehicles such as electric bicycles, patents and other self-propelled equipment — has created a regulatory race in the capitals. Motivated by a sequence of accidents and by the increase of vulnerable victims in traffic, preferences have created own orders to discipline the movement of these vehicles, often with different…