I hate cars and I equally hate escooter turds who carelessly leave the damn thing wherever they hopped off. Middle of pavement, right in the dead center of a bus stop where they clearly jumped from scooter into the bus door.
No, the little bit of space left getting fucked up by careless rental users is very close as bad as cars.
He’s out of line (and his comment is going to be removed as soon as I finish writing this), but except for the personal attacks, he’s right. If you think cars and escooters are “equally” problematic, you have zero sense of proportion.
Cars are problematic due to how people use them. That they are used senselessly, agressively, carelessly.
Thats why there are so many rules and fines around cars. Fines that are nowhere near as strong as they should be.
And those same attitude people driving cars in bad ways also ride scooters.
I had a scooter with two on it plow through a tiny gap of elderly people at high speed just a few days ago.
I had a easily 8 meter wide pedestrian crossing in front of my office vlocked in a full line of e-scooters dumped there as parking space blocking it just as thoroughly as if two cars had parked there.
Now if I were to scale up the ratio of people using scooters to the same as cars then it would get very bad because they seem to think of e-scooters as being more free of rules.
Sure, a good solution would be to replace cars fully and use roads for bikes and scooters. Best possibility.
Sadly that’s not a thing and until then the people using scooters just as badly as car drivers are out there ruining that for everyone.
There are pretty easy solutions for at least the e-blockage: dropoff zones. Big scooter is not quite there yet to go against a mediocre public backlash.
The car solution is super easy as well, there is just too much money to be made in that sector.
I hate cars and I equally hate escooter turds who carelessly leave the damn thing wherever they hopped off. Middle of pavement, right in the dead center of a bus stop where they clearly jumped from scooter into the bus door.
No, the little bit of space left getting fucked up by careless rental users is very close as bad as cars.
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Uhm, are you one of those who park their e scooter wherever they want and are trying to deflect, or why are you so over the top triggered?
You think that’s a good and fruitful way to talk? Aha
He’s out of line (and his comment is going to be removed as soon as I finish writing this), but except for the personal attacks, he’s right. If you think cars and escooters are “equally” problematic, you have zero sense of proportion.
I regard it as a question of scale.
Cars are problematic due to how people use them. That they are used senselessly, agressively, carelessly.
Thats why there are so many rules and fines around cars. Fines that are nowhere near as strong as they should be.
And those same attitude people driving cars in bad ways also ride scooters.
I had a scooter with two on it plow through a tiny gap of elderly people at high speed just a few days ago.
I had a easily 8 meter wide pedestrian crossing in front of my office vlocked in a full line of e-scooters dumped there as parking space blocking it just as thoroughly as if two cars had parked there.
Now if I were to scale up the ratio of people using scooters to the same as cars then it would get very bad because they seem to think of e-scooters as being more free of rules.
Sure, a good solution would be to replace cars fully and use roads for bikes and scooters. Best possibility.
Sadly that’s not a thing and until then the people using scooters just as badly as car drivers are out there ruining that for everyone.
There are pretty easy solutions for at least the e-blockage: dropoff zones. Big scooter is not quite there yet to go against a mediocre public backlash.
The car solution is super easy as well, there is just too much money to be made in that sector.