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Owning a scooter may not be a basic right, but having access to transport is a necessity for most people. Scooters solve that requirement cheaply and efficientl
by m4x 8y ago
Owning a scooter may not be a basic right, but having access to transport is a necessity for most people. Scooters solve that requirement cheaply and efficiently.
Particularly for low income people, hiring a scooter is often a better solution than buying, maintaining and storing a full size vehicle.
Public transport is another option, but it doesn't effectively solve the transport problem for most people. Scooters are significantly more practical.
- chriswarbo 8y agoThere's also the impact that new competitors will have on existing public transport. As an extreme example, if every well-off bus user switched to using these scooters instead, the only bus passengers left would be the poorest. If the service offered discounted tickets for the poor it would be losing money for every customer. I'm not claiming that the status quo should be propped up, but that these sorts of consequences need to be predicted and managed. It seems like this example has a ring of truth when talking about cars rather than scooters.