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Full disclosure, I'm anti scooter. People drive them on the sidewalks, leave them in front of my front door, and I genuinely hope that both of these companies, specifically, fail. With that disclosure, was anyone else horrified that the lifespan of these scooters is only 3 months? Are they really removing enough vehicle trips to make these a net positive from an environmental standpoint?
Reading the comments here make me chuckle. I honestly find it mind boggling that people would complain of bicycles taking up space, let alone scooters. I love the bike share programs in Taiwan and China. I haven’t used a car in years. Yeah some people trash the bikes but most people at least seem to give a shit. Why this is such an issue in the West, I can’t understand...
The problem with these scooters is that they are great as a user, but terrible for everyone else. They are a lot of fun to ride, but if you're just a regular old pedestrian they are a nightmare, people park them in the streets and pass by you way to quickly and closely on the sidewalk. But riding them in the street pisses off drivers and is pretty dangerous, at least that's how it shakes out in Cincinnati.
It's strange that even though SF approved 2 scooter companies to operate that I feel like I rarely see anyone actually use vs what I saw when Bird/Lime were here.
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SF didn't want to make BART feel bad by providing actual competent transit options, so we got the joke that is Skip/Scoot. Seriously, this city has convinced me democracy doesn't work. Maybe China should regime change us. Edit: stingrae points lack of availability may be the City's fault, rather than Skip/Scoot. No sé -- but for sure the city's intervention took a useful, environmentally friendly transit option and m…
Out of curiosity, what is your issue with skip/scoot? All the services seems to be similar to me?
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Scoot removed a bunch of them due to theft. I believe they're trying to figure out a locking mechanism before ramping up again.
To be fair, after seeing homeless people playing around with them and even peeing on them, im not getting close to any of them.
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Involving a car. I wonder if these scooters will cause a death anytime soon without needing to use a car. That would be much more interesting.
Someone died the other day in a Lime scooter after hitting a tree. If you search for news on scooter accidents you will see they are more likely with Limes. Why not Bird? Because Bird throttles the speed according to the current laws (15mph) while Limes go sometimes up to 20mph. Disclaimer: I work for Bird.
I loved using Lime, but I can see cities banning it like SF. You aren't supposed to ride the scooter on side walks and many people do it. People just leave it in random places and I know some cities don't like this.
I have friends in London and commuter towns buying scooters for their own use- despite knowing that they can’t ride them legally. There are none for hire here. When are they arriving?
Remind me again why they are allowed to litter all the public sidewalks and street corners with their scooters? Regulation hasn't caught up yet?