E-scooters

dont you ride an unrestricted ebike?

Yes, it's a bike though, sometimes strong cyclists are even faster. I ride a motorbike and a bike too...

dont tell me you drive a car too?!

I used to though, sometimes when on holiday, if not with pushbikes, I rent it. I also drive karts, well just occasionally.

Don't you ride an unrestricted ebike?

dont we all

Maybe so.

"Electric scooters are so dangerous. I don't know how but there was zero damage to the car."

doesn't sound very dangerous to me.

You know how it's meant.

Here's a horrible fatal incident:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/escooter-crash-teenager-killed-bromley-police-b946489.html

RIP. The same thing could have happened to a cyclist. As for the scooter theft, bikes have also been stolen from the scenes of crashes while unattended before; this seems like a particularly despicable example.

Police have collected CCTV footage from the scene, which is believed to show the Fiat speeding on the wrong side of the road.

Officers are also hunting for the driver of a dark coloured people carrier which stopped and picked up the damaged e-scooter before driving off.

:(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57908240

Heartbreaking. When there are kids around, SLOW DOWN. It doesn't matter what you ride or pilot, but of course e-scooters are used a lot in parks or on footways. I can't even begin to imagine what her injuries might be. Kids are so resilient and often recover so well from injury that it must be really bad. :(

Good news: Almost 1000 warnings have been issued.
Bad news: The usage is expected to increase over the summer. The heat.

I hope that the Nottingham staff will be able to keep up with all the things involved with this increase in rascalism.

Link

E-scooters are now apparently to blame for farm equipment being stolen...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58066465

They're sneaking onto farmland with 8" semi slick tyres?

farmers are black cabbies of the UK

Apparently they're getting away on quad bikes. Sounds like a GTA mission.

Didn't realise that you have parking zones and areas that are geo fenced for the things.
Here in Berlin you can drop them wherever and of course ride them through parks.
Which results in them being parked in the way all the time.
And of course they mainly get ridden on the sidewalk.
All in all not a pleasant addition to our streets, but as always cars and the incredible amount of space they take up (especially here, where parking rules are just advisory but not enforced) are the source for most of the problems.

And they cause cancer and teenage pregnancies.

No, that's Ford Capris. Or to be more precise, having a fag in the back of one post-coitus. The 80s were fun.

Deptford. E-scooters everwhere. I have seen mothers taking their small children to school on them. Mostly the ones that can be had for £300. You can see the appeal: arrive at your destination sweat free. Going shopping? Take the scooter, folded, into the supermarket. Fill up your backpack. Electric bikes are expensive and look terrible, with a few very expensive exceptions. I wouldn’t take a Gocycle into a supermarket, nor would I be comfortable locking a three grand bike outside.

Of course riding an e-scooter isn’t going to make you fit, but it might stop you getting in a car, or even buying one. That’s a result. There is a mass of people out there that would never want to push a pedal. The e-scooter is perfect for them. It doesn’t have the ‘middle class lycra cycling wanker’ taint, for a start.

Get them legalised, say I. Speed limited, some regs on lights, brakes, etc. Add to our numbers of vulnerable road users, change the behaviour of non vulnerables.

Will the scooter uses in your examples stop people getting in a car though or would they be things people would normally walk to do?

A bit of both, but I’d also expect it to get people out more overall, which would be a good thing.

I suspect it's a fair bit of public transport users too.