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> Cars and scooters compete for public space and are directly comparable. You seem to have a very difficult time understanding nuance. I didn’t complain about

> Cars and scooters compete for public space and are directly comparable. You seem to have a very difficult time understanding nuance. I didn’t complain about scooters, I complained about companies dumping their commercial scooters on pedestrian paths specifically for obnoxious marketing purposes. A scooter is fine if you want to own one and you don’t use it to obstruct pedestrian paths for commercial/marketing purposes. But to start dropping your commercial products and commercial marketing in the middle of paths (or roads for that matter) is the problem. You brought up roads and cars and traffic as the “bigger problem”. Now you're suggesting the roads you are talking about were not built for cars. Are the roads you brought up with all those cars and traffic not made for for vehicles? Or you are taking about vehicles clogging up ancient Roman roads? I’d like to engage you but you seem like a troll. Good luck with that.

dionidium 5y ago
> I complained about companies dumping their commercial scooters on pedestrian paths specifically for obnoxious marketing purposes. When I think of obnoxious transportation marketing I think first of stuff like this: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/08/16/opinion-muscle-car-makers-market-mayhem/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/08/16/opinion-muscle-car-ma... In one Dodge Charger ad they literally show a sign that reads “share the road” impaling a tree as their car blows past at a speed that’s not legal on any road in the country you’d find that sign on. The fact that their automobiles kill and maim pedestrians and cyclists at a regular clip is a feature of their marketing campaign. It’s so preposterous and brazen that I still sort of can’t believe it exists. The automakers know their cars are used irresponsibly and they literally feature that in their marketing. I’m sorry I just can’t get upset about a scooter lying on the sidewalk by comparison.

dionidium 5y ago

> I complained about companies dumping their commercial scooters on pedestrian paths specifically for obnoxious marketing purposes. When I think of obnoxious transportation marketing I think first of stuff like this: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/08/16/opinion-muscle-car-makers-market-mayhem/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/08/16/opinion-muscle-car-ma... In one Dodge Charger ad they literally show a sign that reads “share the road” impaling a tree as their car blows past at a speed that’s not legal on any road in the country you’d find that sign on. The fact that their automobiles kill and maim pedestrians and cyclists at a regular clip is a feature of their marketing campaign. It’s so preposterous and brazen that I still sort of can’t believe it exists. The automakers know their cars are used irresponsibly and they literally feature that in their marketing. I’m sorry I just can’t get upset about a scooter lying on the sidewalk by comparison.