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Re:Electric scooters are causing injuries and accidents by jacquesm on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:05PM (#18558000)
What's maybe not so obvious is how much danger scooters expose pedestrians and cyclists to. Scooter riders are not just a danger to themselves. They have much less road awareness than motor cyclists and tend to zoom in and out of crowded cycle lanes and right through car lanes and zebra crossings as if there are no rules at all in and around Amsterdam. I've seen more than one pretty bad accident involving a scooter and pedestrians or cyclists and I've yet to see my first accident with a car and pedestrians or cyclists (in Amsterdam, elsewhere it's unfortunately not such a good record).
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Re:Electric scooters are causing injuries and accidents by tuxxy on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:53AM (#18558391)
I had my earbuds in walking down a fairly wide sidewalk today at night when a scooter rider rode past me going full throttle within maybe eight inches of me. This is not the first incident like this either. It's only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt or killed on these.

What are these companies going to do to discourage bad riders and encourage responsible use?

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Re:Electric scooters are causing injuries and accidents by around_here on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:11AM (#18558439)
Nothing? Unless use drops because of the news/awareness/users injuring themselves, capitalism demands that they offload the costs to the public, minimize their liability, and maximize their returns.
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Re:Electric scooters are causing injuries and accidents by webninja on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:09PM (#18590405)
After about a year or two of using these scooters, the scooter riders will have about a year or two of practice.
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Re:Electric scooters are causing injuries and accidents by around_here on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:09AM (#18558432)
I think it's obvious that the smaller and less dangerous something seems, that the more risk people will take and the more injuries will occur. The fact that people use them on the sidewalk is bad enough.
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