Just this week in Vantaa, Finland three 12-year-old girls piled onto one of those electric scooters you subscribe to with an app and proceeded to get run over by a car at a crossing, killing one of them
The app is supposed to have an age restriction but it's easy to bypass and you're not supposed to have more than one person riding on one, which people routinely ignore
I hate seeing kids and teens speeding around dangerously on those fucking things and then just leaving them laying around on high-traffic bike routes because they don't give a shit since they treat the scooters as completely disposable
Fucking awful bazinga-brained Silicon Valley-ass idea and business model. Actually, there are also bikes you can use with an app but curiously you don't see kids doing reckless shit with those, almost as if electric scooters were uniquely terrible 
Yeah those e scooters are wack. So are those like unicycle things. On a bicycle youre seated high up, and you have 2 big wheels and the bike itself. You're much more visible.
On a scooter it just looks like you're standing up at a glance so cars/buses/trucks are so much less likely to notice you.
Honestly disappointed at the hexbear/c/urbanism knee-jerk reaction to the revolution in personal transport that is happening. These things are so, so, so much more effective at combating climate change than replacing every single gas vehicle you see with a similar-sized electric-powered bazingamobile. Like there isn't any actual substance to these complaints. They don't make any sense. When you're standing on a scooter your head will be higher than if you're on a bicycle. What are you even talking about???
average hexbear user