Part of the solution or start of a new problem

in #scooter6 years ago

If it isn't already there. Coming to your city soon.
Electric scooters / Manual scooters / Rental bikes are these going to solve the transportation problem or create more problems?

Some random thoughts brought on by this.

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Bird scooter image found from search engine.

Many of these bike share has came and went so how long is this going to last.

These are nothing new but when startups are burning money to pushing to make this electric scooter sharing borrowing a page from Uber. The sharing economy is a great buzz word but does it work.

The repair cost will be very high as renter don't care.

There is a San Fran article I read about ride share scooter littered everywhere. Article from China about bike share bike in poor shape, taken apart for parts etc. So how are these shared/rental equipment going to survive the bad side of people? May be people don't wreck them on purpose but I am sure people will take better care of if they own the equipment.

Is it another threat to pedestrians

Some local have opened up the side walk for bicycles. With the 120kg or less ebike as bicycles there are potentially 200kg bike plus rider going at 32 kmh. There are pedestrian death from bicycle collision and ebike is worse. Now there is escooter joining too.

Being on scooter is likely more dangerous than on bicycle

The same reason that make bicycle crossing a cross walk / traffic crossing illegal/dangerous makes scooter use more dangerous if misused. You see motorist expect and look for a pedestrian walking at about 3 mph. A cyclist going at 4 or 5 times that speed dashing over a cross walk will likely surprise a lot of motorist and end in tragedy. But person using a scooter is even harder to spot and as far as I know there is no law banning scooter use on cross walk...

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