Just this week in Vantaa, Finland three 12-year-old girls piled onto one of those electric scooters you subscribe to with an app and proceeded to get run over by a car at a crossing, killing one of them
The app is supposed to have an age restriction but it’s easy to bypass and you’re not supposed to have more than one person riding on one, which people routinely ignore
I hate seeing kids and teens speeding around dangerously on those fucking things and then just leaving them laying around on high-traffic bike routes because they don’t give a shit since they treat the scooters as completely disposable
Fucking awful bazinga-brained Silicon Valley-ass idea and business model. Actually, there are also bikes you can use with an app but curiously you don’t see kids doing reckless shit with those, almost as if electric scooters were uniquely terrible 
So what do you figure the magical compound in E-Scooters is here?
They move under their own power so it takes no physical effort to speed around on them, it’s also way easier to cram 2 or 3 extra passengers onto a scooter than it is with a bike
They’re also everywhere and due to the rental model people don’t treat them with respect
Not picking up what you’re putting down here. The effort required to move an e-bike is trivial, the only point I can see is that it’s harder for 3 people to use one at a time, albeit I don’t see how that makes them any more or less dangerous and as per parking that’d be a pro argument cause it means there’s now just the one instead of three
In Finland it’s illegal to carry passengers on a single-seat bike
ACAB, but the cops released a statement with regards to this case where they said e-scooters become extremely difficult to control with additional riders. Again, ACAB
I genuinely don’t get what this comment is trying to tell me
That scooters are more prone to accidents than bikes at similar speeds due to riding position, wheel size, etc. Another commenter explained it better than I did in another comment