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 
Okay seems like the actually dangerous thing in your story was the car??? Kids should be able to do dumb shit without having to worry about being turned into tomato paste.
Kids should be able to do dumb shit
They shouldn’t have access to motor vehicles to do their dumb shit on
Your complaints are indistinguishable from those levied against bikes. Multiple kids have been piling onto the same bike since forever. It’s even made its way into Boomer/Xer nostalgia bait about riding around your neighborhood with your first love on your handlebars. I guarantee you the death rate is higher for kids on bikes than for scooters. I say this as somebody who loves being a cyclist and uses a bike for literally all of their chores.
And yet people don’t play around with rentable bikes in the same way for some reason
Yes they do what the fuck are you on about. We did all kinds of stupid shit on bicycles as kids, I’m astonished I didn’t have more broken bones as a kid.
I don’t see piles of rentable bikes littering the streets. You occasionaly see one abandoned in a bush but usually people return them to the proper bike stands
People don’t return them because proper scooter stands don’t exist lmao. Bike share systems actually have physical infrastructure showing where you’re supposed to return the bike. I worked for one of these scooter companies, “proper parking” was just somewhere on the sidewalk that isn’t obstructing traffic. These are solvable problems, not something inherent to electric scooters.
I’d be happy if people left them on the side of the road but no, it’s always on the road where they often proceed to fall over and block the path even more
car kills scooter users
we should ban the scooters
honestly this is more carbrained than people who fetishize their giant stupid truck. so carbrained that the car, which was solely responsible for crushing the body of a child, is just not even in the picture. cars cease to exist as noticeable objects, they are simple facts, they are of the world itself.
Yes although to be fair to doublepepperoni, the other complaints mentioned are not contingent on this strange take.
A car is just the worst case scenario, but these things are routinely involved in other types of accidents as well
like what
People riding them drunk, falling and fucking themselves up.
You could say “don’t ride them drunk then”, but when there’s zero oversight that’s what’s going to happen.
what solution for scooter regulation is not worse than the problem? Scooter access and methystikovalian lifestyles are basic a human right. Do we abolish scooters? Fill the streets with cops?
methystikovalian
How can this be a human right if it’s not even a word?
The anti scooter opinion on hexbear is really fucking weird to me, real ranting “the kids these days!!” type shit and just really weird in the context of the rest of Hexbear’s opinions on public transit. Like the electric scooters cause some wires to cross in y’all’s minds that just breaks something
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
Children killed BY A CAR but let’s ban the scooter?
they treat the scooters as completely disposable
idk chief maybe they can like idk charge a deposit? this isn’t a situation to be like “we’ve tried nothing and im out of ideas, ban scooters”
almost as if electric scooters were uniquely terrible
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
nah dawg they are super annoying as it is the people who ride them are the problem. as someone who bikes everyday, statistically i will have to deal with some scooter dbag dude (always a dude) not following the rules and making the road unsafe for everyone, whether it’s pedestrians, cyclists, or drivers. never once heard them use their bell or signal.
