I feel your downvotes. I think people downvoting you have never truly lived in a city where cars can travel just fine (because, y'know, we built a lot of infras

I feel your downvotes. I think people downvoting you have never truly lived in a city where cars can travel just fine (because, y'know, we built a lot of infrastructure around having cars), but these scooters are an actual threat and nuissance to people. Where I live, in a city in Portugal, every single one of these companies (who somehow managed to get deals to place their scooters around) has turned the experience of walking or driving around much more miserable. While walking, you constantly find these scooters thrown to the side, fallen and just overall misplaced. It is not uncommon to have to go around a bunch of scooters, thus stepping into the actual road and risking being run over. Back where I used to live, some idiots used to leave 3 or 4 of them just on the floor at my apartment's doorstep. No one cares, it's just more of a tool for loitering. And don't get me started on kids riding them down slopes while they have that annoying "you're not paying BEEEEEEEEP". Horrible noise pollution in parks where cars don't create such problems (because they don't GO in these parks). You are also sometimes unexpectedly just scared or intimidated by people using these scooters on the sidewalk at scary speeds. Our sidewalks are not built to handle scooters and people. I mean we can barely handle bikes in this city, how would we handle unregulated speedy scooters? As a driver, these things are the bane of my existence. They are driven mostly by kids or irresponsible people. They should not use the road, but they do. They don't really follow the rules appropriately. Traffic either goes too slow behind them, which frustrates drivers and creates more traffic, or it goes too fast and risks everyone's lives. Ever since I saw the first "Lime" scooters in my city, I have despised these things with all my soul. They have brought nothing but problems to me and those around me. Maybe it's a cultural thing and we are just horrible people with no respect for others. But, as it stands, with lacking infrastructure and obviously lacking morals, I also sincerely hope these things disappear off the face of the earth (or, rather, _my_ earth -- my city).