What3Words Is Not A Good App | Mia Mulder 

"And the British isles were correctly removed" As a transgender woman in Britain, I support this statement.

I hope to one day find a partner who looks at me the same way Mia looked at that map at the start of the video.

I love the fact that the Overton window of video lengths has so shifted that a 40 minute video can be considered a short one.

I love the idea that ABBA is a single collective "philosopher" that has been around for almost 2500 years. This is the quality content I come for.

"Norway is basically Yugoslavia" - Mia Mulder, 2021

Whenever someone says _only_ 5%, I know they don't understand probabilities. Ask anyone who rolls d20 (plays a number of roleplaying games) regularly.

Can't lie thought this was about the bad maps

Oh yeah, when the police say I should download an app, that's *just* what I'm gonna do, yeah buddy.

Mia smiling and saying MAPS has made my entire day

You know what's actually funny about delivery apps ? It's that not even they make money, so basically it's a system where every single actor loses. Drew Gooden made a great video about this.

wow, the first 25 minutes were interesting, but after that you just unleash everything that's been on my mind as well and it just feels good to have someone seeing the same issues in the world

Hey Mia, I just wanted to let you know that you have given me the courage to finally come to terms with the fact I am trans. You are truly an inspiration and as always this video was fucking amazing. Thank you so much for helping me come to terms with my true self.

"Maps! Let's talk about something uncontroversial!" Me: laughs in aboriginal person

oh this was a great video--I work in natural sciences/biology and there's always an issue with getting accurate locality information for data and specimen collection out in nature. I found out about w3w a while back and thought it was pretty neat and then scraped just past the surface and backed away very quickly based on all the issues I found haha. You sort of went into it but what makes addresses and latlong useful for locations is also that they are relational--that places near each other are named similar to each other, and that places have nested location info (street number, street, block, city, county, state, country). That your address doesn't totally change because your whole street/whole block/city/country is moving all together. Lat long is the same way in that you can get 'close' and work your way from there--with w3w they advertise it that blocks with similar names could never be confused for each other (and you obviously showed that isn't true) but what that also means is that if you don't get the block exactly right, you have no clue how close you are to where you should be! Being able to be 'close enough' is actually really important when talking about geospatial relationships and mapping.

Dammit, I was rewatching a Mia Mulder video only to get a notification for a new Mia Mulder video. Obviously, I had to stop watching the Mia Mulder video in order to watch the Mia Mulder video

Thank you for taking my vague concerns about W3W and actually doing the work to look into it and putting it into a coherent form. I have to make a lot of phone calls to a government helpline as part of my job and I've got a copy of the phonetic alphabet taped to my wall in order to get through those calls without a whole lot of miscommunication and repetition. And the reason the phonetic alphabet works? None of those words sound anything alike and while a couple of them could be mistaken for something else if you don't know the phonetic alphabet, it's unlikely. This is an easy system to implement when you only need 26 distinct words. Not so much, when you're trying to map an entire planet with three word phrases.

"if you walk for 45 min, you can end up in Yugoslavia." Mia, I think you need a new map lol

Deconstructing maps. A Descartesographer, if you will.

Mia: "let's talk about something unproblematic" Narrator: "It was not unproblematic"

Wait, I just realized this is a new video!! The other day I was telling my boyfriend that this is one of my favorite channels, and I'm so happy to see something new and interesting on my feed again!!

What3Words isn’t even a good reinvention of LatLong. I can tell that 40° 26′ 46″ N 79° 58′ 56″ W is near 40° 26′ 47″ N 79° 58′ 56″ W. In fact, I can even say that 40° N and 79° W defines a large region that contains both of those coördinates. Ideally, a 3 word address system would have some sort of hierarchical system where I can say, I’m in Sleepless-Green, and have that define a scope of area, where the third word specifies a more specific location. An perhaps, that I can tell that Sleepless-Green-Ideas is kind of close to Sleepless-Green-India, but further away from Sleepless-Green-Zebra. This sort of system would make it clear that you cannot just also use plurals, and then an analysis should also be made to eliminate potential homophones or even those that just sound kind of similar. Most places that do alphanumeric license plates will go through great lengths to avoid using 0, O, and D, instead opting for only one of them. Sure, this cuts the pool of available characters down, but it ensures that sight-reading license plates don’t have issues of ambiguous characters. AND EVEN THEN. I guarantee, that if I had my ex-husband tell me a W3W location right now, his app is going to give him the English words, while my app uses the German words. This would have been true while we were still married back in the USA, as well as us now here separated in Germany. Why? Because my phone has always been in the German language, that’s how I do, while for my ex, he’s learning German, but he’s still largely doing everything else in English… (I try to cut him some slack, it’s hard to learn a new language in your 40s.) But he lives here in Germany, and if he tried to do anything with W3W, it’s going to be in English, because he simply cannot operate within German. So, W3W is like, “f- immigrants who don’t speak the local language.” because of course they do.

The Veritasium video keeps making me madder the more I think about it ever since I first saw it. What absolutely kills me is that the video spent so much time giving the example of how automated landing software on planes works particularly well in bad weather...but then he never mentions that Waymo's own safety document stated they did not run the cars during heavy rain or dust storms! He used an example of automated landing in bad weather (which is a VERY different problem than driving in a city) to try and convince us that self-driving is ready for cities outside of literally the sunniest city on Earth! The only blink-and-you-miss-it concession he makes is some areas don't have sufficiently well-maintained roads for self driving, and then didn't even hint what level of road infrastructure would be needed! At least the standards for saying when something is paid content meant the bias was trivial to spot but this was still an absurd video that directly cut against the typical channel lesson of "don't just trust people, question, test, and then learn".

This is a really fantastic video - I was really unsettled by the veritasium video too, and as a map fan this had it all

Jordan Peterson always talks about maps of meaning, but does he ever consider the meaning of maps?

as someone genuinely interested in cartography, i was so interested in the first part of the video that I completely forgot about the capitalism part until it started happening

I think you should have pointed out that both Android and Apple smartphones have a built in method that can automatically send your lat/long coordinates to the emergency services. Plus there are systems in place in many countries that, when you phone “911” it automatically sends your location. Also, I doubt if these emergency services are paying What3words anything.

Makes me kinda glad how relatively "backwards" my country can be to the point that, unless you're in a handful of metropolitan areas, relying on food ordering apps actually gives you less options than just googling up a place and calling personally

Love your commitment to sensible, human technology that works for everyone, for free. The major problem with the push to turn life in to a fragmented series of things we rent is that most of us start to be unable to pay for big swathes of it.

The only way to walk 45 minutes and end up in Yugoslavia is time travel.

"I fell into a hole of misery", " I became lost". Some heavy Dante vibes here.

Mia Mulder just doing a solo episode of TrashFuture and I'm here for it.

im excited for 40-minutes-in-the-future me who will know what any of those words in the title are referring to

Mia: "Reject Modernity (what3words, the Loop, Silicon Valley bus), Embrace Tradition (public transport, latitude & longitude)"

I'm really excited to watch this! I've heard a lot about how what3words can end up leading first responders to the wrong place through similar sounding space names but I'm interested to learn more

I FEEL EMPOWERED BY THE MENTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF YUGOSLAVIA

I'm land surveyor and cartographer by profession and I really appreciate that you used the actual historical context for the Mercator projection. I was back in the day very excited about What3Words when I first hear about it. One problem with first responders in Finland is that many cities and municipalities have streets with same name and I'm under impression Sweden has a bit of same problem. I was quickly soured to What3Words for falling for same problem on completely different and much worse level. Finland being bi-lingual was a problem too, then I started hearing the rough critiques from other professionals who are way more experienced and/or trained than myself.

There are ways in which a version of this is a good idea. Take, for instance, the Navaho lands where everyone doesn't have a "traditional" address because lots of areas aren't located on and near roads. This is called "Plus Codes", look kind of like British or Canadian postal codes It's open source, based on latitude and longitude, so addresses some of the worst things about What3Words - anyone can use it, freely, nobody's getting sued, and while it's not as "sexy" as finding the funniest What3Words in your lawn, it's also not language-based, so "Pizza.Stone.Seal" won't get confused with "Pizzas.Tones.Eel" on a noisy 911 call with a bad connection. It's also not trying to gamify anything, or be cool. So the Oval Office in the White House in Washington DC is at " VXW7+X25", but the square just north of it is " VXW7+X29" and the one just west of it is " VXW7+X24", so you can tell a few things - it's using alphanumerics to keep the innate unfriendliness of a long string of digits in check, and the similarity in results means that it's not trying to randomize things - in fact, "VXW7+" is a square about 250 meters wide that encompasses the White House South Lawn, and part of the White House, go one north, it's "VXX7+" for the rest of the WHite House all the way up to Lafayette Square, etc. Go out a bit and "87C4 VX" is a square that goes from National Airport to the National Mall, etc. etc. etc. This means the full code is "87C4VXW7 +25", incidentally. This can be useful to "addressize" homeless people, rural people as I mentioned, etc., without it either replacing traditional addresses for those who have them, or being a cash grab for some Silicon Valley app slinger. The process is open, as is the conversion from lat/long since that's all it was intended to be, unlike What3Words' intentional obfuscation.

To be pedantic : GPS sattelites are essentially beacons, they do not "find us". The GPS _receiver_ determines the position of its own _antenna_ based on the distance to between the antenna and each visible satellite (pseudo-distances computed from radio-wave flight time, requiring all GPS satellites to be synchronized, which is why they all carry an atomic clock). From those distances, the math to find your coordinates is essentially trigonometry. Just so you know.

As a software engineer and leftist who has been told _since 9th grade_ that silicon valley is where i need to be if i want to make the world a better place (and also make shitloads of money off of it), this was super cathartic. the “there should be an app for that” mentality that startup culture floats on makes me so mad on every level. thank you mia, for always speaking truth to power 🙏

I almost expected the 'map men map men map map map men men' jingle.

24:31 Actually, Tom Nicholas had a livestream recently kinda digging into the video you are talking about. Turns out that it is not true that most accidents are caused by human error, or at least that the statistic in said video is heavily missused. Ultimately, most accidents are caused by bad road designs and such, and it's not clear how much better self-driving cars would be at driving in them---at least, for now.

whenever someone says "capitalism breeds innovation" im just going to send them this video

Didn't expect a thrilling and in-depth study of the song Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but exploring the sociological and philosophical underpinnings of a desperate song for someone's partner to just please stay really livened my mood. Thank you! (I'm also just joking, sorry! I did enjoy the video loads though, thanks!)

Yeah the Elon Musk loop really feels like it's meant for rich people to get around safely after the climate apocalypse comes to a head / if we finally revolt

When it comes to capitalism a good idea that's free and makes the world a better place will always be beaten out by a bad idea that makes peoples lives worse but can be monetised. And if a successful idea can be made more profitable by making it worse it will be

I was just scrolling through my RU-vid feed and suddenly this video appeared. I didn't know this channel existed but as soon as you did the plant thing I subscribed and I'm here for it. You're awesome and such a nerd! 🥰

I will say that in terms of usefulness, the food delivery apps vastly outclass things like The Loop or other mindless "reinvents public transportation but worse for the fiftieth time" projects. Calling up restaurants is really difficult for some people - particularly people who live in countries where they don't speak the majority language very well - and building an entire online ordering system is currently expensive and janky for individual food shops. There is an actual need that these apps fill - but they usually fill it in a bad and exploitative ways. :p

Adore this content. I'd love to see Mia collab with PhilosophyTube some day.

I've been feeling off ever since I saw a what3words ad on yt of that exact emergency service scenario- thanks for doing the research and vindicating my suspicions!

My echolalia is going to feed on Mia saying Loop for days...

anyone who's ever seen the "I'm at soup" skit can tell you what a terrible idea What3Words is

Listening to your voice is so calming, I never thought I would watch a 40 min video about maps! Keep it going gurl, you are amazing

Spoken as one of the newest inductees to the Cult of Silicon Innovation (I have to move there this year 😭), this was a refreshing snap back to reality. A reminder to remain critical of every company I see here, scrutinize where the money is going and where it is coming from, and seek to identify and avoid zombie ideas. I wish there were a way to cut through the bullshit and determine if an idea, any idea, is a zombie idea or if it is actually doing something that makes things better. How would you do that?

First of all wow, loved this video so much, second of all “zombie ideas” is a perfect term both in that it is accurate to what it describes and also in that it sounds just eerie enough to match 🎶that funny feeling🎶 that comes from watching a billionaire invent a worse version of a public library

Have to say the self driving car video almost had me thinking it was a good idea again even though I went in thinking "umm buses are *right there*". Big "you are not immune to propaganda" moment

Thank you, I had the same issues with the video of Veritasium. Silicon Valley is dictating what we want instead of the other way around.

I broke a rib when one of the scooters, badly repaired, threw me head over handlebars on the way to work. No one came and helped me. I had a bruise the size of my hand and was winded for 10 whole minutes. I live in Australia and the public transport is not consistently great. I hate those scooters

Hm... I think What3Words works well on paper. It could be useful in very specific scenarios, it is a shame to see it being screwed up. As autistic person I really appreaciate not having to call restaurants. The biggest silicom valley advantage is convenience, and thats the real problem.

Minor correction: ABBA didn't say money makes the world go around. They had a song called Money Money Money, but the song where money is said to make the world go around is Money Money from Cabaret. I know... hardly the point of the video. Which was excellent.

pronouncing veritasium like a harry potter potion instead of an element is such a power move

This is a great sequel to that 'map Men' video

Thank you Mia! what3words has been bugging me ever since i was subjected to their advertisements a month ago. and by god those electric scooters bring me to a boiling rage.

11:30 FYI You can open google maps anywhere... It uses cellphone data to triangulate your location, and when you hold down on the map you can generate your lat/long. Send out a text message with your lat/long to your emergency contacts as text messages can queue to send. This will give potential aid an easy means to find you.

I feel like lots of these companies just dont understand the concept of "if it aint broken, dont fix it".

It's useless as an actual address system, because I live on the 4th floor, and w3w doesn't do the vertical plane.

I like putting my pets names into what 3 words to see what squares belongs to my animals

I also feel let down by Veritasiums self driving car ad and Physics Girl also has an ad for a car manufacturer up, what a marketing department streak 😔

"It's fine for emergency services to fail to reach you 5% of the time." is an unacceptable statement. Extremely unacceptable.

"Hey, can you give me some instructions how to get to the cinema?" "Sure, just take a left on hair-thesis-sleeve and continue on that road until you reach channel-structure-gradual. Turn right and eventually you'll see the cinema on your left at depart-patience-jaw." "Ok, can I park there?" "The parking lot is just a bit further North of eternal-bundle-deviation." "So at about time-epicalyx-tongue then?" "No, the square North of that, hotdog-willpower-customer." "Oh, of course!"

Stopping by to give a comment to boost the engagement. Really loved the video. One of my faves from you in recent months. Not saying your other stuff hasn't been excellent, I just found this one really fascinating.

I really loved the final section to this video and how you explore this pervasive idea that technology is a solution to all of our problems. Even when it comes to something as huge as climate change, we already have the tools to solve it and they just need to be implemented thoroughly rather than looking to new technologies to fix it (and arguably technology is responsible for it).

I'd never heard of this channel before, but someone shared this link. As a GIS developer, this kind of stuff is like catnip to me. I think you did a great job and I'm going to check out the rest of your channel now. Great work!

as a trained geographer who consistently designs maps using geodata in GIS programs, what3words makes my teeth itch.

Jokes on the middle man, I find restaurants on the apps and then phone the restaurants.

"There's a 1 in 2.5 million chance of being in a confusing square in the UK." There are 66 million people in the UK. That's as much as 26.4 million people stuck in a confusing square that could be royally fucked in an emergency situation. Taking on that 5% number, even assuming it's accurate in the first place, and assuming each person is allowed to have *exactly* one (1) emergency over the course of their lifetime (or, at the very least, that everything averages out to 1 emergency per person per lifetime), that's 1.32 million people that are going to have emergency services sent to the wrong place, leading to potential long-term complications or death. I mean, I'm not surprised that some random corp is okay with risking 1.32 million lives (and that's only in the UK specifically) just to make a quick buck, but this really illustrates how seemingly tiny chances and numbers in statistics can misrepresent the actual impact of a problem. 5% and 1 in [really big number] *sound* small until you start applying them on a global, national, or even city-wide scale. It's like the whole COVID thing with people yelling about how only 1% of people die from it... 1% of 6 fucking billion is a *lot* of dead people.

As a European, I can confirm. One Saturday night I walked for 45 Minutes and ended up in the Balkans in 1991. Not my proudest moment.

As someone who has been programming for a while, I learned a skill when anyone comes up to me with new requirements to say no, and then to ask them to justify why they need this new thing. Maybe silicon valley is just a bunch of college dropouts with limitless resources.

20:03 "it's your fault our algorithm is shit" RU-vid: "write that down! Write that down!"

Amazing video. I yearn for the day when we as a society collectively realize that public transportation is a great and needed thing! I wish my tax money would go towards it! Also, every time I see the freaking Loop I get so mad. It’s such a dumb idea. It’s also a major fire hazard and there’s no way emergency services are efficiently getting in that tiny tube. It was also really interesting learning about what3words- I had actually never heard of it. But it also sounds like a terrible idea. A family member of mine is a firefighter, and I hear their pager go off all the time. The pager doesn’t have the best sound quality, and neither does the radio frequencies that the dispatchers use. If a dispatcher was trying to say the three words to describe the square location, the is a BIG chance that the emergency responders would mishear the words. Especially if the word was a plural. It could be disastrous if a square nearby the emergency had a similar sounding name- what3words sounds like a terrible system in my opinion.

A 5% chance?!?!! I just rolled a D20, and it only took 10 rolls to get a natural 1. That’s the equivalent of someone dying here, so that is FUCKING TERRIFYING

I'm so glad you basically took some of the internal screaming I've had ringing in my head for... way too long now? And articulated it into words. Also, I've been getting so frustrated by channels like Veritasium and Kurzgesagt because they are *literally doing the work of these people* (though the latter is more difficult to spot). Hence why I haven't watched them in So Very Long. (Also the reason I love Tom Nicholas's video on Johnny Harris.)

great video! I've recently been so annoyed with all these food-apps, they just make everything worse for both the consumer, workers and the restaurants

31:01 Sorry, but I have to go on a tangent about the Loop vs trains. I am going to agree with the video and my peeves are with Musk, but I still have to vent. Both cars and trains were around for quite some time. And when you see this pattern emerge, this usually means that one thing is good in some situations, and in other situations the other thing works better. In case of cars vs trains the split is pretty clear. If you need to move small amount of stuff, or you need freedom of choice where to go, you use cars. However if you try to load a lot of stuff - you will eventually have to build a car so big that it is nigh uncontrollable. And trains are better at this role. By using a specially constructed road as a guiding mechanism, you can now load and effectively move a lot more stuff. But you obviously can only go where the rails go. And subvays were originally designed to serve as transit system for a lot of people, and even the rails, you have tunnels to constrain your freedom of direction. How can a sentient being assume that cars are suitable for subways? Of the advantages the alternatives offer, you lose both. Why?

Your humour is so good it's made my day a bit better in the first 3 mins

Yeah, that self driving car video was pretty rubbish. E.g. comparing AI intelligence to human intelligence in the manner they were attempting is virtually meaningless; A human driver that was somehow injected with millions of hours of driving experience would not have problems identifying potholes, or traffic lights that had moved locations, or need millions more hours to understand snow. Its just a nonsensical metric, a marketing gimmick. and its a bit sad as well, because self-driving technology does have enormous potential, but there is a lot of nuance and alternative applications of it that an unbiassed video could really dig in to.* - Derek has been honest at times that he does videos he might not be quite so proud of because videos he has more passion about dont tend to make as much money and such, but Im not sure if being self aware about your shilling really justifies it. Tom Scott is a fairly good example of someone who managed to make fantastic videos often from around the world, and who is generally a lot better about sponsorships, even going so far as to pick apart some of the big sponsors and risk burning bridges. - I cant really speak to their respective financial situations but it does seem odd that a channel the size of Veritasium would need to do essentially full length advert videos to remain sustainable. - - *Though that video has nothing on his Bill Gates video, that was just sickening to watch as Derek helped launder the reputation of the man. Buying in to the baseless excuses as if any ol idiot would be making up vaccines in their kitchen, and likening people who find it profoundly fucked up that Gates directly blocked the planned open sourcing of a key vaccine to conspiracy theorists. It was just a disgusting display of someone I generally respect, prostrating himself before a billionaire who has repeatedly proven he has no fucking idea what he is doing, even as he steers national and even global institutions off a cliff. (In the case of the US education system in particular, so clear was the damage done that even Gates himself admitted theyd massively fucked it all up.) The man wasnt even particularly good at writing operating systems, why the fuck is anyone listening to him about health, education, etc? Oh... right... billions upon billions of dollars...

I love how you pronounce the decimals. I feel like I've been living through a fever dream from many of the other youtubers I watch who pronounce it like a number ("24 point forty three") and I'm glad finally I hear this way

Haven't watched the veritasium self driving car video, but its a shame to hear that he used his amazing reputation and shilled a bad solution 😔. Another great youtuber, CGP Grey, did a kinda bad video promoting self driving cars as the solution to traffic a few years ago, although it wasn't sponsored I dont think. He has since acknowledged the video was flawed and said if he did it now that he would do it different, but it still sucks that North America's car culture completely overshadows the much better solutions of implementing actually good public transit.

The thing with people like Veritasium is that they really do believe the stuff they get paid to shill for, it's the case of "if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting". That applies to BMW, Bill Gates, and Waymo.

Why are you so iconic + have you seen jay Formans mapman series?

I've downloaded those delivery apps to check what kinds of "restaurants" i have in close proximity And then go there myself

really enjoyed the electric scooter rant, those things suck, they've ruined sidewalks in my city

The focus here is Silicon Valley's attempts to fix things which weren't broken in the first place, but more broadly, there is a conversation to be had about private sector interventions when the existing infrastructure is lacking or when laws to safeguard everyday people alongside businesses are weak. One example is the privatization of water, a resource which should be a fundamental right. As is too often the case, a corporation like Nestle will get a foothold in a community with lax water restrictions and will eventually demand increased access to the water sources in the region. Rather than improve the drinking water systems of these places, they instead will supplant the existing public infrastructure as a primary resource provider and sell it back to the inhabitants at a markup. Where there's money to be made, public officials would be wise to approach any agreements with caution.

"you have probably seen a map before" how did she know this

There are some pretty massive problems with the implementation, too: 1. They use far too many similar-sounding words, as you mentioned. 2. There's no relation between similarity and distance between points. They make no effort to either split up or group together similar strings, or group them - you could have two squares which have two words identical next to each other, or those points could be on the opposite side of the world. The former increases confusion - it means that if you only remember the first two words, you can't guess the latter by just typing in the first two and going to the only one that's in the rough area that you're expecting. The latter makes it much less useful for practical navigation - you can't start heading towards the "hello" area while checking the second word, then go towards the "hello.smile" area once you get that, then finally narrow in on hello.smile.happy once you've got the whole thing (or find them by old-fashioned methods once the first two words get you close-ish). 3. You can't actually use them for most kinds of navigation. Navigation mostly amounts to answering the question "I am at location X and want to go to location Y, which way do I go?". With normal systems, this is a matter of simple trigonometry, if you want to be overly pedantic, or some simple approximations for most purposes. With what3words, if I'm at ranch.gold.tower and want to get to headsets.building.than, which way do I go? It's south, but there's literally no way to tell that without the app.

RE the similar names PGP designers came up with the PGP Word List. Which let you read names over a phone that encoded PGP keys or any data really. It's alike a NATO phonetic alphabet but for binary data. (It encodes 8 bits/1 byte per word). For 57 trillion address you'd need 6 words at that rate. So literally solved the probelm 18 years earlier if you just made it a bit longer. What-6-words is still catchy I'm sure. But I guess you can't get a patent on base-256 encoding your coordinates.

An amazing video! Didnt know anything about the subject previously but found it very entertaining and informative

We here across the border in Finland also recently started getting those electric scooters in all the larger cities, and it's just as bad idea here as it is over there. Can't help but think Finland saw big bro Sweden with cool gadgets and just had to copy them, regardless of whether it makes sense

I remeber in swedish middle school teachers told me to have an atlas (Map book) remember pages and the grids for when needing help of an emergency to be able to say: page 25, B 4 or something

I loved most of the video, (25:07) but how exactly are electric bikes "ruining the environment"? I'd agree with you about Tesla cars, but bikes are MUCH MORE efficient. But scooters can be a bit annoying - especially the monopoly of rented scooters in the UK.

I tried one of those sidewalk parasite scooters once and quite liked it. So I immediately bought my own that I fold up to carry on the bus/train and park properly whenever I ride it somewhere instead of keep paying small amounts that get out of hand over time and contribute to making the streets difficult to navigate for people with disabilities. It's just a different kind of bike basically.