This idea fails to account for MANY car externalities, like the effects of paving the roads and parking lots they need, and the massive environmental opportunit

This idea fails to account for MANY car externalities, like the effects of paving the roads and parking lots they need, and the massive environmental opportunity cost associated with those spaces. Scooters are net positive if they get any number of people out of cars. Yes they're worse than bikes, but nobody was really saying they were better.