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Isn't the main issue that cities banned them and people adopted an anti-tech mentality towards them? I think everything I saw was: a) People think Uber is a di
by staticassertion 4y ago
Isn't the main issue that cities banned them and people adopted an anti-tech mentality towards them? I think everything I saw was:
a) People think Uber is a disgusting company and scooters were associated with that
b) Some people were leaving scooters in bad places and it seemed like companies didn't have a solution to this, which blew (a) up when particularly bad incidents (eg scooter left on muni tracks) would occur
- majewsky 4y ago> Some people were leaving scooters in bad places and it seemed like companies didn't have a solution to this I don't have an anti-tech mentality, I have an anti-externalization-of-costs mentality. If those scooter startups did not have a solution to scooters creating dangerous obstacles on sidewalks, maybe they should not have dumped them there in the first place and left the problem for the locals to figure out. It was particularly bad because, whenever a new scooter company started operating in our city, it happened by them dumping thousands of the things into the streets overnight without prior warning. I understand that a slow ramp-up is difficult because you need a certain density to make the service viable, but it was all executed very badly without engaging the local community beforehand. It just made the companies come off like a bunch of douchebags dumping their shit all over the city. Like those drunken assholes that throw their empty beer bottles into the sandboxes at the public playground.
- staticassertion 4y agoIDK, cars are super dangerous, and we did make manufacturers take some responsibility ~70 years ago but I'm not sure "scooters are dangerous sometimes therefor bad" makes sense given "cars are radically worse".
- jjav 4y ago> people adopted an anti-tech mentality towards them? anti-tech? No, anti-littering is more like it.