• just_chill@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      I suspect there is a bit of a compounding effect with renting the scooters (more prevalent where I live), which makes users less respectful. Or a novelty effect with teenagers rushing past on their new toy. In my experience that wears out fast, though.
      I guess even here some forget that you can put the scooters on bike lanes :)

      • Serdan@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I just googled a bit and one claim I saw was that about a third of accidents involve first time riders.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Same here, my town simply has multi-use paths basically on every other street and the only problem i see with e-scooters is that for some inscrutable reason people insist on parking the rental ones literally in the middle of the road???

      It’s incredibly strange because they don’t even park them near a destination, literally just in the middle of nowhere…

      But other than that people behave really well, and it makes me smile so very much to see families where the kids have their own bikes and e-scooters and the parents are riding rental ones, the added convenience of e-scooters has absolutely gotten more people out of their cars and actually experiencing the world and interacting with people around them.