The Rise of the Electric Scooter
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter
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#2The last mile has been solved?
Now we simply need to make the 50-75 miles in-between more bearable. Hopefully, someday soon we’ll be covering that vast distance at the incredible speed of 100 mph (160 kph)
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t...
Re: The Rise of the Electric Scooter
#3The last mile has been solved? Now we simply need to make the 50-75 miles in-between more bearable. Hopefully, someday soon we’ll be covering that vast distance at the incredible speed of 100 mph (160 kph) https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t...
> Hopefully, someday soon we’ll be covering that vast distance at the incredible speed of 100 mph (160 kph)
> https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t...
Intercity / regional trains are already a thing, and 160kph or so is a standard top speed for them e.g. Class 387, SNCF Class B 81500, …
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#4Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
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#5Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
Or bike it. Also healthy and infrastructure and laws are there.
People with disabilities cannot use these scooters anyway, they need something different.
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#6Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
Or bike it. Also healthy and infrastructure and laws are there. People with disabilities cannot use these scooters anyway, they need something different.
I cycle a lot, but bikes are a pain in that you need somewhere to park them, something to secure them to prevent them getting robbed, they're horrid in the rain and you have to ride on the road or a bike path. I can see the attraction for scooters that avoid these problems, but for the length of journey they're good for, why not just walk?
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#7Lots of places are not even bicycle safe and walkable. So I don't even see how Electric scooter will work in those locations. I notice it's adopted in places where people can walk and bike.
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#8Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
Walking is not disruptive.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or bike it. Also healthy and infrastructure and laws are there. People with disabilities cannot use these scooters anyway, they need something different.
I cycle a lot, but bikes are a pain in that you need somewhere to park them, something to secure them to prevent them getting robbed, they're horrid in the rain and you have to ride on the road or a bike path. I can see the attraction for scooters that avoid these problems, but for the length of journey they're good for, why not just walk?
How do scooters solve any of these problems? Do you not have to park scooters? Do they not suck in the rain? Do they not need some surface to ride on?
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#10Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
Walking is slow. Walking a mile takes around 20 minutes. If you walk a mile to the transit station at the beginning and walk a mile at the end, that's 40 minutes of travel time before you even factor in the bus/train trip.
Of course, walking is to be encouraged where practical, but it has a very short effective range compared to a bike or scooter. Scooters and bikes drastically extend the effective reach of transit stations, with much less of a downside compared to cars (less polluting, less noisy, less danger for others, less parking space).