• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    22 days ago

    on dirt, their weight cause erosion. On pavement, they can injure their hooves

    These problems would equally apply to the ‘electric horse’, would they not?

    • litchralee@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      In the same way that torque/current-limited ebikes will cause less soil erosion in national parks – case in point, Tahoe National Forest in California now explicitly permits Class 1 ebikes on trails, once they had enough data to support that assertion – I would expect that an electric horse could also be tuned to limit its acceleration on tricky surfaces.