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Re:Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work by kurthr on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:19PM (#17796966)
Scooters are great, because you can ride them anywhere... on the street, in bike lanes, on the side walk, or across other people's lawns. I just found out you can even ride them the wrong way up a parking garage exit ramp spiral!

/sarcasm> actually, I guess the scooters are fine, it's just the people paying $/15min feel entitled to do whatever, and there are no consequences. I've got more respect for those modding them into free rides and I don't live in Manhattan.

Re:Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work by techsupporter on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:40AM (#17797771)
> it's just the people paying $/15min feel entitled to do whatever, and there are no consequences.

As a frequent pedestrian (no bike, no scooter, just a pair of sneakers and an overweight gut) in a decent-sized city, I have this exact same sentiment about vehicle drivers. I'd even write the sentence:

"It's just the people paying $/month/car payment feel entitled to do whatever, and there are no consequences."

I'm almost run over crossing at legal crosswalks with the light indicating I can go, all across the city at least twice per week. "Dockless cars" are left in crosswalks, across sidewalks, in intersections when they don't have the light, and drivers disregard stop signs and red lights and yield signs on an almost daily basis.

I think the problem is less the mode of transportation than the mentality of the person operating that equipment.

Regardless, I've noticed a lot more hostility towards people who are riding bicycles and electric scooters than I ever hear against people who are piloting two ton bricks of smash-me-into-anchovy-paste steel in an unsafe manner.

Re:Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work by paulie_a on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:43PM (#17797042)
Also red lights and stop signs become optional.
Re:Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work by hamandcheese on Sunday August 19, 2018 @11:46PM (#17797584)
This is true of bicyclists as well.
Re:Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work by user111233 on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:37AM (#17797761)
And cars. Also trucks. The pedestrian crossing near me has a warning sign stuck up by someone telling you to look behind you for trucks running red lights while turning.