Ban these fucking things or at least ban anyone under 25 from using them
These little assholes zoom around at light speed colliding into grandmas
Not sure what it is about electric scooters but people on them are way more reckless and less mindful than cyclists
Agree. I was pretty annoyed when dozens of these things were in the middle of the sidewalk, and broken ones were lying in ditches and stuff, but this was incidental business insanity which has mostly passed now around here. Fundamentally (and in practice here where I am today), they're not actually more in the way of pedestrians than bikes. They legislated these things around here to be quasi-bikes. The only actual annoying thing about them sharing space with bikes is that they have high off-the-line acceleration but lowish top-speed, which means they tend to not flow great with bike traffic, but it's not that big of a problem really.
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Cities and road design/rules/regulations definitely need to be completely reconstructed. It's awful how everything gets lumped to either being a car equivalent or a bike equivalent with almost no accommodations for bikes, and then how fucking awful it is to have to interact with the government for license testing, etc. on top of it.
Edit: So you have reasons to say scooters and equivalents show be treated more seriously. But to incentivize people using them others want them less government regulated than cars to get away from auto-centrism. Just shitty situation all around.