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And in the marketplace of ideas, why must there be only one workable solution? An electric scooter is a fraction of the cost of an ebike, so you can have more
by floatrock 7y ago
And in the marketplace of ideas, why must there be only one workable solution?
An electric scooter is a fraction of the cost of an ebike, so you can have more of them, creating a denser transport network. Not as durable, sure, but why not let the investors deal with that risk?
And as much as I'd love the US be like the Dutch and have personal bikes go everywhere, I don't bike to the coffeeshop a mile away because the only bikes I see locked up outside in my city are missing, lets say, critical pieces. Bikeshare and scootershare offload the risk of personal property theft.
- smallgovt 7y agoWell, in this case, there may not be enough (literal) space to fit both solutions. Since cities are regulating this, if one solution is generally superior for last mile commuting it will probably take the cake.
- dublinben 7y agoThere's plenty of space in every US city being used for storage of private automobiles to support both a bike and scooter share program.
- Someone 7y agoLease a bike, and offload all repairs to the leasing company (https://swapfiets.de/en/ https://swapfiets.de/en/) That doesn’t guarantee you will have a bike available at all time (if it breaks down, you won’t get a new one in a second), but neither do bikeshare programs.
- DrScump 7y agooffload the risk of personal property theft ... which somebody always pays for (the customers, if the business survives, investors if it fails).