Overview and Updates of our Project
Five months ago, we began the process of creating this documentary, starting with ideation and our initial research. We moved into our in depth research analysis of EMMs(electronic micromobility) including scientific articles on use, environmental impacts, and health journals that looked at the health benefits as well as potential repercussions. This analysis also included looking at the news, over social media platforms, within Facebook groups and Reddit threads.
We then began to reach out to experts who could tell us more about the effects of EMMs as well as micromobility as a whole. These interviews gave us a deeper understanding of how these devices are manufactured, how infrastructure does or doesn’t support this kind of transportation and the health effects of use. Currently we are working on generating more interviews to expand our current research, to help analyze the nuance of these devices and where the e-micromobility market is headed.
From a production standpoint we are continuing to capture video and images to help illustrate our story, including the devices themselves and the infrastructure that supports them.
Thank You!
We wanted to take a moment to thank our interviewees for taking the time to give us their thoughtful insight and expertise on our topic.
Jack Evans
Complete Street Specialist, Local Motion
Jake Tran
Cyclist, Independent Business Owner
Kate Soons
Director of Health Science and Emergency Services, Saint Michael’s College
Horace Dediu
Founder, Micromobility
Insight from our Interviewees
“I think there’s so much more room for e-bikes out there to gain more popularity. But I just hope that we do it in the right way. So we reduce the conflicts out there and get more people to enjoy biking in general.”
– Jake Tran
“We have a lot of these devices that look like e-bikes but are way more powerful and legally require a license and registration to use, and either law enforcement isn’t prepared to enforce those rules, they aren’t educated about what the actual distinction between these classifications of these devices or it’s just a hard thing to enforce.”
– Jack Evans
“So what micromobility’s proposal is that the physical impact of a micromobility vehicle is about one-fifth of that of the car… One-fifth in terms of the environmental impact of manufacturing… One tenth lower in terms of energy consumption.”
– Horace Dediu
“The ability to take a human body and have it go faster than it could walk or run and maneuver more quickly than the human body can naturally, lends itself to injury. With the rise of these electric micromobility devices, there’s this concept that I can get from point A to point B quickly and maybe with limited orientation, so the energy that the body is experiencing is directly related to the speed”
– Kate Soons
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