https://www.france24.com/en/20181024-electric-scooters-banned-french-pavements-transport-vehicles
Good, fuck these assholes on these scooters
There were so many in Paris. There's this rental service where you can basically just grab a scooter off a station on the sidewalk. I wonder if they'll be able to stay afloat, since I don't think many people will opt to use the Parisian roads (shudder) with them.
15-20. Most of these shouldn't be on the road since you're asking to get creamed by someone on the tiny slow scooter.
I'll kick your ass after I charge my scooter punk
Here? Faster than a bus
https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/e-scooter-rider-dices-death-overtaking-bus
Bicycles here are legally obligated to drive on the road, even though the average cyclist will go at about this speed.
LIke 20mph/30km/h. It was a hazard to pedestrians when they were on sidewalks, and a hazard to themselves on the road.
Private companies flooded the city with them overnight with no regulations whatsoever. It wasn't fun, people already barely respect traffic codes here, and they legit disrupted the circulation even more, or barely drove past you at full speed on sidewalks. Very glad they're gone.
They started showing up here like a month or two ago and from what I've seen they go fast enough that they can seriously injure anyone they hit, no different than a bike, they should not be on pedestrian paths.
Are electric scooters just the latest in terms of really poorly regulated personal electric vehicles that encourage asshole users? I can't help but think this is just hoverboards all over again.
When the hell is someone going to hack these so I can ride them for free
Are there any bike lanes they can use?
In paris not everywhere, the largest streets and the seine docks only. In the countryside, yes.
But let's be real barely anyone respects theses kind of restrictions in the first place. I see bikes and motorbikes riding on the sidewalk all the time when it's always been illegal.
Where I live, it's kind of unusual to see specific bike lanes, so sidewalks are both for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Where there's no bike lane, you're supposed to ride on the road. No matter what, you're not supposed to use the sidewalk, that's just fine dangerous.
Well that's just not how it is here. The sidewalks are meant for bicycles and pedestrians. Heck, the sidewalk I use every single day has an electronic bike counter with a display next to it
It's not like I live in some heavily populated city anyways.
Huh, those are a thing? When I read the headline I thought it was talking about mobility scooters.
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