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Re:Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says by loceng on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:10AM (#18320628)
I wonder are the scooter users (or the companies renting them) going to pay for changing parking spaces into scooter parking spaces - or is general society going to fit that bill if it ever comes?

Likewise, something I rarely seen is the indirect cost of the reduced safety/increased accidents/collisions related to scooter use brought up as part of the big picture; who's paying for that depends on each country's current state of healthcare.

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Re:Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says by amanaplanacanal on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:45AM (#18320798)
Hmmm. Who paid for the car parking spaces? Probably the city. I'm not sure why this should be any different.
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Re:Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says by loceng on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:08AM (#18320923)
It's a question to bring up a conversation relating to costs. What if scooters are a fad? What if autonomous vehicles eventually make the cost of transport less for due to the added cost of having to pay people to pickup and move the scooters back to their high demand pickup locations?

There's further analysis that could go into this - to then decide if or when it is a reasonable idea to cover the cost.

Another consideration/question is that I believe in many places the tax on gas helps pay for infrastructure, and I don't know if electric vehicles have this tax to cover the same road-related costs.

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