I’m sad that scooters are illegal to ride on the road here in the uk. I’d happily pay maybe £50 a year for insurance and tax if it was an option.

For a while I rode my father’s scooter around town, it was brilliant for short errands and fit easily in the boot of my car. Great for when a bicycle is a little too large or you don’t want to expend the energy.

(My father never actually rode the scooter, he hoped that by adding a seat he could use it instead of an old people’s buggy, but he couldn’t get his feet down fast enough and going at a slow speed on a small pavement was hard to keep balance- he got an electric tricycle instead. )

You know you can bring your scooter inside, right?

In particular, not at the grocery store I shop at, they have no provision for it and they would ask me to bring it back outside if I tried. Even so it would not be more secure there than outside. There is no store security and the vehicles typically don't even have a key, alarm, or tracker built into them. They disappear easily.

I just roll mine around it's not really a problem

They don't have baskets at this store. You have to use a push cart. This probably has something to do with the amount of theft that occurs in this area. I'm also probably not equally abled to you so a _bicycle_ is more useful to me and pushing that around a store with a cart getting groceries would be a ridiculous chore.

The world would probably be better if you didn't assume that everyone's experiences are identical to yours. Otherwise I can just keep using my gas powered truck to get groceries. I can easily afford that and it's "not a problem" for me.

An EV bicycle just seemed more considerate in several ways, and unless it has the features that speak to my needs, I don't see myself using one.

I don't know of a solution for the types of half-size carts common in small grocery stores, but I've seen people stash their scooters in the space below the main basket of full size carts

Okay.

Could you also just put some anti-theft features on the device itself?

Is there some reason NOT to do this?

What an absurd conversation this has been.

It seems like that would be difficult given its size. It's hard to secure something you can just pick up and walk away with if you can't just bolt it down

I remember when the Segway was first announced, a reporter from The Register observed that it was too large and heavy to bring inside, but small and light enough to be easily tossed into the back of a pickup truck, and it cost about $3,000, when it was introduced (which is probably double that, these days).

I just want a scooter that can be put into come sort of bag or carrier and strapped to my back like a backpack, that shouldn't be so hard.

Solves the theft issue for once and for all, unless you get mugged.