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They are electronically limited to 20 km/h in Paris and weigh no more than a bicycle.
Getting hit by a bycicle at 20km/h can severely injure you.
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As someone who regularly uses them I would be very sad if they were banned. It is a very convienient mode of transport and can often cut journey times in half for me compared to public transport. I also ride a bike but I don't always have it with me, or want to lock up my bike somewhere overnight and risk having it stolen. I think it would be unfair to punish responsable users because of a few bad apples. Half of the…
Paris has a pretty good shared bike service, there is no need for a personal bike.
2) Having a choice in what bike you want to ride
Rental scooters are often competing with walking. A 10 minute walk might perhaps be a 2 minute scoot. Great. But in my city, for every 1 scooter ride, you will see 100 pedestrians walk past. Ie. they have a sub-1% market share. And the scooters are idle >95% of the time. I suspect, the friction of needing an app is too high. The complex signup process needing a driving license is too complex. The pricing (multiple do…
The scooter companies should also add screens to the scooters, and use them for promotions. Eg. "Ride me to XYZ bar for free!". These promotions can be paid by businesses who want traffic, but also help the company redistribute the scooters back to gaps in coverage. The promotions should again be appless and authless. Friction is what prevents people using these things.
No, in this case it's the outright city ban that prevents people from using them.
> The scooter companies should
Lime and dozens of others have been around for about 6 years by now, they are doing just fine* and they can probably figure out the promos if they manage not to get banned?
* https://www.li.me/blog/lime-becomes-the-first-shared-electri...
Rental scooters are often competing with walking. A 10 minute walk might perhaps be a 2 minute scoot. Great. But in my city, for every 1 scooter ride, you will see 100 pedestrians walk past. Ie. they have a sub-1% market share. And the scooters are idle >95% of the time. I suspect, the friction of needing an app is too high. The complex signup process needing a driving license is too complex. The pricing (multiple do…
E-Scooters are a public menace. They're way to fast for the sidewalk, dangerous on the road, litter the sidewalks and cause people to trip, and are almost always ridden unsafely, with no safety equipment at all. Get these death traps off the streets.
I've lived in a couple of large cities where scooters and bikes shared the same space. I see little to no advantage over bikes, and scooters are way more dangerous.
Why not just go with e bikes