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I recently went south to LA and SD, and the scooters are awesome there. I saw them mostly near the beach, and 0 thrown in the middle of the pavement, none block
by throwaway66666 8y ago
I recently went south to LA and SD, and the scooters are awesome there. I saw them mostly near the beach, and 0 thrown in the middle of the pavement, none blocking exits or riding them obnoxiously.
They even have scooter police that will give you a ticket if you go too fast (I am not saying that as necessarily a good thing, just that they seem to have their stuff together as cities). For the first time I actually made an account and hopped on one of them.
However, in SF they overdid it. I don't know if SF residents got replaced by a bunch of self-entitled nerdy manchildren, but holy hell they were obnoxious. You would see 5-6 of them blocking the entrance to a restaurant (at anchorsteam brewery tap room especially). Thrown down in the middle of the pavement. People riding them on the sidewalk yelling "GOTTA GO FAST", going somewhat fast (at least have some dignity and dress like Sonic the hedgehog if you 're gonna do that). Think of an 80s action movie where the punks or hell's angels type of gangs run amok in the city, but it's dudes wearing startup t-shirts on electric scooters instead. Anyway, I 'm not a nimby but their presence in SF really left a sour taste.
But after seeing them in LA and San Diego I am convinced they can work super nicely if a little bit of common sense is applied. Maybe the SF populous is early adopters and jumped on the latest trend with too much passion, or maybe those companies put on the streets too many units. I don't know, but it can be done right and I 'd really like to see them back.
- noobermin 8y agoThey aren't going anywhere. People are just mad their favorite service didn't get chosen.
- throwaway66666 8y agoWho cares though, they are all the same. (I forgot which company's I used, until I checked my phone now to see the app). They really didn't work much on brand recognition, I 'm surprised people have favorites
- woolvalley 8y agoI'm mostly upset by the # limits. It's not enough for the entire market. Also I feel like some of the bad behavior was vandalism by haters. Who the hell would put black sharpie on the QR codes or shit on scooters themselves? Probably not someone who uses them.
- throwaway66666 8y agoI felt the same to be honest (my comment above was meant to be somewhat humorous). I 'm pretty sure many of the ones thrown around where parked properly and someone just kicked them down. Pretty sad.
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 8y agoThe sharpie thing might actually be someone trying to "reserve" a scooter for themselves. (Take a picture of the code before making it unreadable, then the scooter always stays wherever they left it.)
- wellyeah 8y agoI'm just mad that the city gets to "choose a service" at fucking all.
- devhead 8y agoThis is what I've seen in CA as well. SD has not had nearly the reported issues other cities appear to be having. Nothing all that different about SD or the people (transplants) so what gives? why can't people not make a mess of the service? I think there's opportunity for the scooter companies can mitigate the abandonment or carelessness of their products by using some thoughtful software. If someone leaves a scooter tipped over, they get banned for a day. Do it again, they get banned for a month. etc... Maybe have a clearing house to monitor cross service users are bad actors?