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
There are tutorials online on how to "domesticate" those rental scooters if you happen to get one from an auction. Also there are discord channels with people giving you tips if you're stuck doing so. If you know how to crack games and like to tinker with stuff it's actually fairly easy. At least it was like that when I got a lime gen 3. The first bird ones were the easiest as those were actually Xiaomi scooters and all you had to do was switch the motherboard which you could get from Aliexpress for 20 dollars.
Use search queries like:
Site:scootertalk.org [brand and version of rental company]
My understanding is that the manufacturers closed a lot of these exploits years ago, or at least made the hardware harder to access. But that said I encourage all attempts to find uses for litter inexplicably abandonded on public sidewalks, roads, and in people's yards. Otherwise all that lithium is just going straight ot the landfill.