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I wasn't understanding anything. It looks like the meaning of the word "scooter" has changed. For all the non-americans here, you can see photos of scooters: ht

• abakker 8y ago
  For Americans, there have been effectively 2 meanings of scooter for a long time. There have been kick scooters back to the 80s at least, and in the late 90s to 2000s there was an explosion of razor scooters. The “small motorcycle” is also called a scooter, but at least in my own circles I hear people call those by the name “Vespa” (a common name brand for motor scooters) a lot more often.
• TwiztidK 8y ago
  Maybe just an American thing, but we kind use the term for both but usually call the larger ones "mopeds". If there was a change, I don't think it was too recent either as I had electric (similar to the Bird scooters, but much larger) and manual "scooters" in the late-90's/early-00's.
  • stevehawk 8y ago
    well the problem there is that a moped is part bicycle.