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 thonk

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    The rental bikes in my town are all boring old city bikes which I assume makes them much less exciting to mess around on

    I also assume the city, which subsidises them, is too cheap to splash for fancy expensive ebikes

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      we used to have that. don't want to dox myself but lets just say the rental scooter/bike mafia won out over the publicly funded system, and not by being nicer or cheaper.

      I miss it so much