Re:Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin
by wpietri on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:04PM
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Agreed 100% on the sidewalk-riding. The other day I was outside a restaurant waiting for a table. I moved back one step to let some people by and felt something brush my coat. It was some idiot riding one of those powered rental scooters downhill. 15 MPH at least, and given that it was downhill, maybe more. Two steps back and I would have been in the emergency room.
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Re:Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin
by m4x on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:29PM
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You are allowed to call people out for riding dangerously. They might not appreciate it at the time, but as long as you aren't aggressively rude they will probably ride more slowly the next time they get on a scooter.
Eventually personal transport will be normal and everybody will know how and where to use it appropriately, but it will take a bit of time and practice to get to that point.
Re:Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin
by wpietri on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:49PM
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Tell me, step by step, how you think I will politely but effectively call out somebody going by me at 15-20 mph. Use diagrams if you need.
Re:Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin
by cycrutchfield on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:19AM
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Use your voice
Re:Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin
by wpietri on Friday November 09, 2018 @05:07AM
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Having just recently experienced this, at 15-20 mph he was well out of easy speech range before I fully realized what had happened, let alone had composed a reasonably polite thing to say.
20 mph is 30 feet per second, and this yahoo brushed my back as I was talking to someone. 5 seconds to turn, understand, and start talking isn't unreasonable. If you can politely get the attention of somebody 150 feet away and receding rapidly using your voice, I'd sure like to see it.