E-Scooters Are Driving People Insane
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- App-enabled electric scooters have popped up in cities around the world, creating legions of sworn enemies and exuberant fans along the way. Bloomberg QuickTake explains the public's love/hate relationship with e-scooters, and why they might be key to building the city of the future.
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It is not the scooter. It is the immaturity of the people that is the problem. Do you want more cars instead? Cars cost more and pollute more. Also, instead of trying to regulate the things, let the market do its job. If people hate it, scooter companies will go out of business.
Exactly! Electric scooters cause no problems. It's like people don't like efficient ways of transportation.
You do realize your vaunted "market" gave us cars, right? You do know every major US city used to have great urban trains and trolleys until the car companies, through the "market", bought them and trashed them, so people would buy cars?
@@markbenton1300 Excellent point. It is true that car companies ruined a lot of public transportation through lobbying. But also Americans had a yearning for the American Dream, living in suburbs in large houses. Cheaper cars enabled that to happen. Once everyone had cars because they wanted to live in the suburbs, the public transportation withered.
well said, people just need to use their basic common sense. I owned an e scooter and used it for over 1000 kms without any incidents or anyone shouted at me. Treat others as how you want to be treated, SIMPLE!
Mark Benton Its almost as if people in America want their own transportation and independence. Get out of here with your communist ideas
“They litter [the city], menace pedestrians, and endanger their riders’ lives.” Are you talking about cars?
Where I live, cars don't drive on sidewalks.
@@is1dre Where I live they do. Bucharest, Romania. Here you can park on almost every sidewalk. Horrible!
Matthew Wunderlich Cars do none of those
They’d litter the streets and menace pedestrians NO MORE than bicycles. An electric scooter would take up 1/2 the space of 1 bike AND its the anti scooter f’wits are the ones throwing them around and pushing them over like dominos! Darrr... Fucking idiots!
@@stevej.6674 Agreed!
Capping the number of cars in a city is an excellent idea.
And destroying a electric scooter will totally fix our pollution.
Singapore does it
Yes for milennials it´s the perfect idea to use something and scrap it after a few weeks. That how you grew up. You know nothing else.
Nice, so stop using your car.
@@ILovePancakes24 Let's get back to this debate in two years (the lifespan of Li-ion betteries).
I love riding these. And I'm 49.
And im 63,,,230 lbs and i flyyyyy on my zero10x.
Keary jon Botley just got my first one at 54 and I couldn’t be more excited. I have mobility issues with nerve damage in my back and have my freedom back. Bunch of old foggies complaining about the first car are still alive apparently
At 40 I bought my first a month ago. I love it however I feel like some big kid riding down the street when I take it out lol
@@brianvanderkooy6198 I feel like Elroy Jetson!
@@brianvanderkooy6198 And so what, why shouldn't you have fun at any age, they are great fun and great form of transport.
Also help reduce pollution and let's just say I find them the best thing around so far and so useful.
I can't say better than anything but different and that different works exceptionally well.
“Menace pedestrians and endanger their riders lives” Perfect description of cars
Not only pedestrians but literally the air. cough cough pollution
@c ra True, the scooters should be on their own paths (like a bikeway) instead of the sidewalk
Imagine for a moment that cars were equally as unregulated.
Eugene Balfour Cars do neither.
do you see many cars driving around on the sidewalk where you come from?
I live in Austin, TX and if anything these scooters have been a welcome addition. They make getting around downtown a breeze, save me time/money and encourage me to have a more active/outdoor lifestyle. I hadn’t realized how mentally draining dealing with parking/traffic had become.
Lol, you think riding a motorized scooter makes you more active? 😂
@@roninnder well it gets you out of the house.
glad to see so many positive comments on on this topic, at the beginning was only hate but honestly it all comes to the rider, they're definitely safe and I have already 8-9 months on one that goes 18 Mph and I've had no accidents or falling except some slippery on rainy days because I didn't know it would slip but now I know I have to just drive straight. Saved me also a lot of time and money I would have had to pay for the tram on top of that a feeling of freedom
@@roninnder being sportive it's just a choice, bicycles would be surely the best transport thing if we could never sweat or get tired but that's the only bad side of it. I definitely don't want to be arriving at work with 0 energy left.
@@moon4lord biggest issue with bikes would be living in hilly areas and my main issue lugging them up and down stairs from your apartment with an escooter I don't have to worry about either of those things they climb hills well they are easy to carry so they can be brought up stairs easily and since they are so compact wherever I go to work I can just fold it and take it in with me so I don't have to worry about theives
Just wait till you here how many people die in cars.
Bryce Maples !!!!!
Bryce Maples hear*
Really? Why? Don´t you have drivers license in the US? Seatbelts? Regulations on how and where and how fast to drive? And at least I don´t just park cars in the middle of bikelanes.
Bryce Maples here
Ola K death from car crashes is one of the main causes of death in america (where I live)
they are all over campus at the university I go to. if anything, I wish there were more of them.
I can see how they would make sense in an enclosed setting like a campus or a pedestrian only area, but I think it's too much of an issue in dense urban areas, especially on the streets or on sidewalks, without strict regulation and established pick-up and drop-off centers.
@@toBe8ere established drop off centres would defeat the purpose though. The point is that this system gets you EXACTLY to where you need to go. Not 500 metres away from where you need to go (like a bus would).
At that university do you do research? Maybe look at where the rare earth metals in the batteries originates from?
@@ifthebeltiscrackedor If I ever organize a debate team, you're my first pick. I've never had a face-to-face argument with an e-scooter advocate and when I come here, I see that they're using all the lines I expected, with a heavy dose of ageism.
@@toBe8ere but what if you own your own e scooter then the great majority of these issues would be gone
As long as the riders of the e-scooters follow rules and use common sense...it would be peace in the world! =) No but seriously, this has just moved the haters from hating bicycles to e-scooters...
It’s universal I hate them both ,I’m a motorcyclist and these idiots put me far more at risk ,I’ve seen women with a kid on them going up the road .
This is the sort of idiotic behaviour you see on them .
Here's something to think about:
Electric Scooter Guide did some math on the efficiency of electric scooters. They figured out how far you can go with $20 of energy, gasoline or electricity.
A Toyota Camry doing 30 MPG will go about 170 miles.
A Tesla Model S will go about 512 miles.
A Xiaomi M365?
Over 8700 miles. That's like riding from L.A to Dubai for $20.
Spoiler: people who get hurt on e-scooters are the same ppl who never were allowed to ride scooters as a kid and constantly told their kids “it’s dangerous”
I live in SF and I can't wait to buy my E-Scooter next month. I do theorize that SF has issues with it because you save money on having to buy a car, the insurance, and parking (which is nuts here in SF) and I believe all 3 entities work together to try to get rid of these efficiencies so they can stay in business. So the Xiao-Mi scooter is 450 on amazon and if its 2 dollars per ride, all it takes is 225 rides to be able to break even for a scooter and my colleagues scooter has lasted him more than a year now so it is extremely cost efficient, and if not on sports mode, can travel up to 15-18 miles or 10-12 mile straight uphill. In a place as expensive as SF, I feel like you need these scooters as a means to actually save money
The problem is not the e-scooter, but the abuses in specific "sharing economy" business model used. I purchased my own e-scooter. I fold it up and take it inside at the end of every journey. The complaint s noted, which are very real, do not apply to me, but rather the business model used. These corporations are abusive and predatory.
Couldn't agree more
Why is it only Americans have a problem? E-scooters are the future, future cities should be designed with e-scooters as the main mode of transport. In SE Asia we don't have so many D-bags I guess, we have respectful and responsible riders.
Widen sidewalks and narrow down car lanes. I just spent a few days in Annecy, an alpine French town with lots of narrow streets, and I was amazed at how many small electric vehicles -- scooters of various descriptions -- there were. They are so quiet and convenient. They fit right in to the city. My favorite was a fat tire electric scooter towing a tiny trailer to make deliveries in a pedestrian zone.
With kids using e-scooters households will need at least $6000 worth of candy for halloween
xD
Can you imagine all the kids dressed up as businessmen, driving from one door to the next, taxing the whole neighbourhood for candy.
South Park
@@I_only_think_of_me haahahah i just found the south park clip of this. They had the same exact idea lol
The real issue aren't the scooters. It's the drivers. People don't know how to handle these vehicles. I own a $1100 scooter and someone I know tried the scooter who isn't very oriented and nearly crashed just trying to kick if off. The people using these devices don't know how to ride them.
You're worried about how someone rides a scooter?
Have you seen the drivers in this country operating a 3,000lb missile?
This could work for dense cities. Otherwise, people care about the security and weather protection afforded by metal boxes. Oh -- and the "Look at me losers, I driving a Lexus SUV!" thing.
Using a 3000 lb vehicle to transport 1 human being is a waste
Most are around 27lbs.
You think scooters are obnoxious? Wait till the hovers arrive! Funny how we cannot have nice things because of carelessness or too little awaredo-ness.
True and dont even think about these horrendous stinky and loud driving machines called cars.
2tonnes of Metal for everyone fat person... Whats not to love here?
Make it an e-motorized leather recliner with a cup holder and I bet no one will complain.
I like them but they don't belong on sidewalks. Put them in the bike lane.
When used responsibly, they shouldn't drive anyone insane. C'mon, they're roughly 1/3 the size of a conventional bike.
pedestrians on scooters are still pedestrians just on small mobile platforms , and don't people in cars become more dangerous as soon as they start to move, and they also take up loads more space and pollute the air, and how many people get killed in car accidents when traveling on E scooters?, and they say the scooters are dangerous , well yes if you get hit by a car or truck they are, so it stands to reason that the car is still more dangerous than a scooter , so using that logic should we not ban cars and give the towns and city's up to cleaner E vehicles and micro transport . just saying .
Poeple who get in accedents on birds sometimes it's not birds fault, for example I ride a longboard and a boosted board, faster then the scooters and I can stay safe at 24 mph, and you can't walk your dog and ride an e scooter at the same time that just doesn't work, and some poeple out there on the path riding the scooters can be stupid and you cannot blame lime or bird for that, I think scooter share is amazing and I love seeing people ride them and I love passing poeple on my boosted board 😂
E-Scooters are the dumbest mode of transportation ever! They should be abolished once and for all!! For the sake of pedestrians keep those menaces off the sidewalk and just like bicycle; SHARE THE ROAD!!!
The main problem of kick scooters is that throughout their history they were no
more than a fashion accessory or just a toy, which was never taken seriously
In Europe we use bicycles and we have done so for decades. In Copenhagen we have great infrastructure for using bicycles and it's often the most convenient way to get around. Unless you're in hilly places like San Francisco, I don't get why you would want electric scooters over bicycles. Surely, Americans aren't that eager to avoid any possible form of physical activity...?
They're everywhere where I live. Its like only $200, why not make people buy it instead of trashing the street? Plus, that will help people learn it more too before they ride it in streets.
What's the difference of a skateboards, bikes, and skates?
I am juicer for lime aka I pick up and charge scooters. Please don't take the scooter into your home. Leave it outside by the road this is not your personal property. When you park the scooter don't block the side walk or leave it in the road. Don't take it inside your apartment garage if you need a code to enter. I don't have the code but your smart ass parked the scooter on the third level. Pull up to your complex and leave it outside. Don't take the scooter into events area that are locked at night. Glad you saw that baseball game but the scooter is now locked behind a gate 🤦♂️. Please just always leave the scooter outside by the road so we juicers can easily pick them up and charge thanks in advance.
1:18 , where the fuck did this guy get a helmet , don't tell me he walks around all day with a helmet on just in case he has to get on a dangerous man eating death scooter
A couple months ago, a homeless man from Louisiana beat a woman to death with a scooter in Los Angeles. And just a couple weeks ago a homeless man nearly beat an elderly man to death with a scooter in Downtown Los Angeles. These scooter companies are littering the streets with these things and they are a blight. One great upside to these scooters though is that it provides a great way for criminal kids to make their way into areas they otherwise couldn't reach before and steal things from hard working people. Great job!
Did you go to school to get stupid or what?
People are always gonna reject new progress like when they charged people that thought the sun is the center of the solar system with hierarchy.
Agree
I love how the narrator is blaming the scooter...
People litter the foot path
People menace pedestrians
People endanger their own lives
I got an ad of an e scooter while watching an e scooter news thing
Idiots on escooters are driving people mad. Should the title read
.making out it's the scooters fault
Because if you get somebody that's got any brains about them.
They would be ok I've got a 43 mph scooter and I've never come off it yet!
Ride sensible kids and idiot drug selling teens that's ruining it for everybody
I didnt know about this and all this video has done is made me want to ride one. E SCOOTER WHERE YOU AT IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA?
I think it's a great idea to have electric scooters because they are eco friendly and if people use there head we will have more ways of transportation.
Something to consider is the personally owned scooter market. I own my own. I care for it, and it is the perfect last mile solution for me.
For some it may be too perfect and even downright DANGEROUS!
I believe sit down scooters would be better
No-one washes a rental car? I always wash my rental car before returning it. I thought it was the done thing.
They make $20 a day on average and it costs about $400 to replace. So over a year you'd get 6K per scooter and so even if the maintenance is high or a few get lost, its still a highly profitable business. Do some research before you get on camera mate
This was literally the joke of South Park's episode yesterday LMAO
I wish the UK would change its laws so we could have them! Ride them on the pavement recieve a fine, ride them on the road get points on your drivers licence! Insane
You can definitely ride them in the UK. I see people on them all the time.
@arron batchvarov Technically they are illegal based on the antiquated laws they still have there, but I don't think the police really bother you as long as you don't go too fast, and don't operate you're scooter in a reckless manner.
Basically if you ride them on the road the police cam class it as "driving a vehicle without insurance" I saw on police camera action, they gave a guy 6 points. Seems a waste of police time but yh you can get points, but only a penalty if you ride on the pavement.
@@arronbatchvarov5035 not legally mate you cant. Its bloody stupid I know
@@jamesx2703 yhea man it's a shame but that won't stop us from riding them they are ginius
The problem is they’re riding them on crowded sidewalks at speeds exceeding 10 mph. They’re a fucking menace on sidewalks. As long as people keep them on the roads and off sidewalks, they’ll be fine.
Houstonite here, the scooter riders make want to do things that would make josef mengele disgusted.
How come they are allowed on the sidewalks. They are crashing into people. They do not adhere to any regulations. I don't mind they have separate road and speed limits.
I’m pretty sure the car companies are sponsoring these videos
dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm right
TL;DV - public are such outrageous idiots, ride-shares (where the rider doesn't manage the equipment) will prove how careless the lower-average civilian is.
We should rate countries on how well the average civilian can avoid natural selection without intervention
You cannot blame scooters for people irresponsibility. You should charge those who refuse to accept rights - you can track it instantly through the app… you park it where you shouldnt - charge 50bucks directly to the police pocket and you wont do it anymore.
Scooters are a "menace". Have these people ever considered how many people die each year because of car collisions. Or how many people get into a car accident each year.
@c ra Most of the people that die in a car crash , did because two cars crashed... Nothing to do with pedestrians
Cars are regulated ok.... How hard can it be to grasp.
Not on pedestrian footpath please
Hold on first off you said "endanger rider lives" and show a woman falling off one but it wasn't the scooter that was the problem no, it was the woman holding the dog rather than focussing her attention on what she was doing.
She fell because she tried to be lazy and walk the dog while riding a scooter, what a daft thing to do.
How exactly is that the fault of the scooter?
Your more likely to get injured having a poo than you are on a E-Scooter fact.
Now that you mention it there is SOMETHING going on back there.🤔
These could be the solution to traffic congestion. They’re more manoeuvrable than a bike, and they can be carried on a train, or in a car, and recharged indoors.
But they need to be used responsibly: Stored away tidily. Banned or speed-limited on pavements. And ridden sensibly on roads.
Hey milennial! Where does electricity come from? Where does the rare earth metals in the batteries come from? How long does a Li-ion battery last? What happens then? Your generation that were supposted to be fed up with the grown up generation that dumped all problems on you. You seem to do pretty well falling in the line!
Three years later and people still hate them. Well, it seems like the elderly are the ones with issues. I could be walking on the sidewalk with my Turboant and I get head shakes and dirty looks. They will actually slow down to look at what I'm doing if I riding on the side walk and almost create a traffic problem. Its like get a grip Maude.... Oh, and I'm almost 50, so yeah its a geezer thing
Already had kids riding them on freeways and in malls.
Yes obviously Cars can be dangerous but at least you have to demonstrate you know how they should be driven have insurance and have compulsory safety equipment.
When I was in Valencia (Spain) I saw these things everywhere. In my country (the Netherlands 🇳🇱) I’ve never seen one though. In the Netherlands we have bikes 🚲
@@mooyo8951 You are right Nigga we (Germany) also hate them
@@mooyo8951 da hell?
Y all euro trash. I'm kidding--i love yall
@@MrDopeKeen Well in Germany 70% of the Autobahn has no speed limit :P
PUBGdinner and why would you hate bikes? I mean biking in Berlin for instance is very nice.
Literally it’s the public that needs to adjust and scooter riders need to follow all the traffic laws. Everybody will be fine. That first horseless carriage wasn’t supposed to last either but woopsies. Some ride like the rules don’t apply and that has to stop. People need to wear helmets too. My Ninebot Max tops out at 18.5 mph. You don’t want to contact the pavement at that speed. Here we are offered a sane solution to traffic pollution and it makes people angry. That’s a stupid as the first guy on a horse laughing at the first car. Get over it. Get your own and stop complaining. Wait 20 years they won’t have wheels anymore and you can complain all over again
Scooter death are waaaaay... lower than car accident death. The person that encounters accident with a scooter are dumb and challenge their ability. Btw I own my scooter.
I'm just annoyed at the ignorant ones leaving them in the middle of side walks or riding on busy pathways making people jump out of the way.
ban cars not e scooters atleast in city center. less pollution n less congestion. cities need to invest in suburb parking. so people can park their car n hop onto scooters inside city.
Will fail 100%. So easy to steal. Take one, wrap in an aluminum faraday blanket. Take it to basement. Disassemble.
I love the e scooters, they are so fun and useful, it's great to bridge that gap of too far to walk but too short to uber, like 1-2 miles, excellent for urban spaces. The only complaints I've heard are from old people who haven't ridden one.
walking 1-2 miles is great exercise
You must be old if 1-2 miles is to difficult to walk......
@@angrytwinnow9990 Oh really? Don't you realize how dangerous E-Scooters are? One false move and you're gone!
the government is more eager to make scooter laws than they are to update internet laws.
They need to abolish these menaces!! They drive on the sidewalk and do not care! WHAT A DISGRACE!!
A rival to the hated cyclist's
SouthPark already showed how fucked up scooters are
I think they're a great idea!
Meanwhile in UK, NSW, AU and Netherlands.
I have 2 of them, an E Bike and a Rav4 Hybrid (soon prime plug in) in order to do my fare share for the environment. This is the future of zero emission transportation
Correction, escooters are driving old people insane. I love the scooters and infact i own one myself. Get the fuck over it
Saying "like they always say, no one washes a rental car" is the most ignorant comment regarding this space. Rental cars are cleaned and washed....by the rental companies after use. Creating a servicing/maintenance arm under the direction of [insert scooter company] creates jobs and product/service responsibility pushing competition between companies to create better and therefore cleaner/more durable products. Legislation against scooters are back by crowded-out car companies unable to force more product in a maxed out area (urban metros). Critical thinking skills, learn them.
Where is the evidence of anti-scooter legislation backed by car companies? Thanks.
infrastructure needs to be built around scooters
MilesBellas no
@@user-vr8gl9ly5n
It will be. The internal combustion engine is mass polluting and is being phased out.
Electricity can be generated from sunlight and scooters are high efficient forms of personal transport.
MilesBellas It is not being phased out. Engines will never go away. Scooters are only being used by people who can’t afford cars.
@@user-vr8gl9ly5n
"nine countries and a dozen cities or states have announced what the media has called “bans” in the last few years. Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen wants the city to end all new diesel cars starting next year.
Last December, Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City said they would remove diesel cars and vans by 2025. Norway will phase out conventional cars by 2025, followed by by France and the United Kingdom in 2040 and 2050, respectively."
"Trump would negate bills such as the one proposed by the state legislature last year to end manufacturing and registration of new gasoline cars in California by 2040. "
@@user-vr8gl9ly5n
"The effects are rippling through the auto industry regardless. In the last two years, carmakers have rushed to roll out plans to electrify their vehicles. Daimler will spend $11.7 billion building 10 all-electric and 40 hybrid models with plans to electrify its entire lineup, reports Reuters. Volkswagen AG aims to electrify its 300 or so models by 2030. Ford says it’s “all in” on EVs, while GM is adding two more electric models alongside the Chevy Bolt, eventually ditching the combustion engine altogether. China’s Volvo is only releasing electric models starting in 2019."
Walk. What a new zero carbon alternative.
WRONG!!! Those things emit as much carbon in their lifetime as a conventional car. It's NOT Eco-Friendly after all and may worsen climate change.
Car accident : critically injures pedestrian.
Scooter Accident: pedestrian says ‘Ow!’
It's funny how cyclists can ride on pavements and get away with it
Scooters need a speed limit on footpaths for public safety.
Better yet; keep them OFF the footpaths! Those innocent people have been hit without looking!!!
singapore banned them pretty much alr ;/
Around the world? Really?
just cos some people are idiots on scooters other people that ride safe have to suffer cos of the idiots....THATS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS. i use a scooter but i don't drive like an idiot
I support new ways of transport but for God's sake don't let them blocking the sidewalks! Take other pedestrians in consideration.
No mention of how they are charged.
they actually pay people to charge them at the end of each day
even with paying those people to charge them these companies are making money
the question is for how long
@@iamdmc Thanks for the info. I always thought that they were solar powered.
slhines7 nuclear powered ☢️
These companies are only making money off of investors, not from the actual business.
buy and use em
Those people who crush their scooters are just a holes
Wrong!
I wonder what the roads will look if e scouters replaced cars
I wonder what the world would look like if every car was scrapped after two months of use.
@@ifthebeltiscrackedor now why would that ever happen???
South park did an episode on this so it must be a real epidemic!
i haven’t seen these in the uk, but i saw a load in st. louis, austin, dallas and a few other cities in the states, and i saw a fair few people going down hard..
Dude be sure to toke up a big fat doobie before you start and get lost in traffic while “FLYING” around some metropolis somewhere and that scooter ends up under a city bus and causes 10~ 15 K $ in damages,
And possibly the loss of life to a random pedestrian ?;
Oh nooo!!! ,
Nothing could possibly ever go wrong here and talk about lawsuits!!;
Especially after John Doe breaks his neck ;
It’s the perfect business model 🤯🚨
I'm curious : what's the distance in bike that u guys considerate acceptable to go to work?
Why didn't they talk about @birdgraveyard
escooters are great...how else can i get 18650cells for my ebikes...
So there dangerous that also means mobility scooters must be dangerous
I'm here to comment that I'm the only one who hates them. Go ahead and leave something hateful at me if you like. Thank you
Better and smaller than bicycles on sidewalks.
Better? No! You need to realize riding E-Scooters on the sidewalk is dangerous at any speed! Those Pedestrians will have a ton of issues!!!
How do these things recharge themselves?
driving ppl insane? no one literally cares.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA,,andddd,,,Im 63,,240LBS,,,AND FLYYYYYYY ON MY ZERO10X...YEP....WHO SAYS OLD MEN CAN'T FLYYYYYYYYYY?????
Lol I just bought one and it’s great
Baby Boomers wake up. These punks need a smack down, they are forcing us from public space
Mike Turco right so the cars don’t force us to move differently but a little scooter does plus you think violence is ok for be inventive? Get fucked.
@@Amateur_Pianist_472
Hey piss-ant, these two wheeled abominations come up behind you on the sidewalk, ride the opposite way in bicycle lanes and leave their junk all over town.
Refering to smack down i mean legally, get a brain dumb ass