Unusable by almost everyone that’s disabled, most of the elderly, and cannot carry any significant amount of goods.

Damn, I should call my 80 year old mom and tell her to stop doing her shopping on her bike. She’ll pass it along to all her friends of similar age when they bike to the community centre together, I’m sure.

you still run into range limitations that are incompatible with living anywhere but a city.

Damn, so it only works for 274 million Americans and 555 million Europeans who don’t live rural.

but it also would have made my main job impossible back when I could still work. You can’t ride a bike thirty miles across mountainous terrain in snow and ice to get to a patient’s house.

Oh no, it doesn’t work for everyone all the time everywhere. Since this isn’t a perfect solution for everything always, we should just completely ignore it and never use it.

I do 90% of my trips by bike, but sometimes I have to work at a construction site or a factory complex or some other middle-of-nowhere place, so I go by car. But when I go grocery shopping, or to a cafe, or out for dinner, or to my friends nearby, I go by bike. Most of the time I go to the DIY store, or clothes shopping, or just for fun, I go by bike.

And when it doesn’t work, I take the car, but it’s by far the minority of trips.