There aren’t designated zones in place to park these things and even if there were the market is oversaturated by a bunch of VC subsidized companies.
Bollocks to that, you could replace every 10th parking spot with bike / scooter parking and that’d be an entirely solved issue. The thing is if you park them somewhere that people think of as car parking space, so most of everything, they’ll just huck these things on the sidewalk.
All your other points apply to cars, too, is the point. Sure, at best these’d be a municipal service instead of 10 carbon copies of the same business running them at the same time, but looking at the above picture and thinking “boy those rental scooter / bikes sure are stupid” is missing the forest for the trees here.
Bollocks to that, you could replace every 10th parking spot with bike / scooter parking and that’d be an entirely solved issue. The thing is if you park them somewhere that people think of as car parking space, so most of everything, they’ll just huck these things on the sidewalk.
All your other points apply to cars, too, is the point. Sure, at best these’d be a municipal service instead of 10 carbon copies of the same business running them at the same time, but looking at the above picture and thinking “boy those rental scooter / bikes sure are stupid” is missing the forest for the trees here.