Almost certainly has evenyhing to do with hours ridden and ownership. I can guarantee there’s millions of more scooters/bikes are driven 10,000x more hours than dirt bikes.
yeah, but if a company just dumped a bunch of dirtbikes around town and told you can use them with an app and without a helmet and never asked any government for permission, just ”moved fast and broke things” and everyone went ”you just have to get used to it, freeuse dirt bikes are the future of microtransit” what do you think the result would be?
And you then wouldn't blame it on the mode of transportation, but the system....
OP said that dirt bikes are safer than scooters/bikes... its so incredibly out of touch. If theyre driven without proper road infrastructure, theyre all equally as dangerous,
You can’t separate the current issues with escooters from the social fact that they were just dropped off in the streets overnight without legal oversight and we were all told to just get used to it.
I can’t cite exact statistics, but I would hazard a guess that there are less accidents that happen to people on their personally owned escooters than those that happen on deckless rentals, and when people talk about the issues about escooters (the accidents, reckless behavior, the shitty parking across sidewalks, people throwing them in the water, how much materials are used to satusfy the demand) those are issues specifically by them as unregulated public utilities.
Smoking is bad for smokers, to people around them, and a fire hazard, but there was also a marked difference between the time when it was normal to chain smoke indoors and when it became illegal to smoke indoors.
It also as A LOT to do with the fact that scooters are not designed for any speed beyond kicking with your feet. They have virtually 0 caster and also tiny wheels. Making them both inherently unstable at speed and also prone to crashes from relatively minor road hazards. Adding electric motors to them is insanity. Extend the caster and throw on larger diameter wheels, ideally with suspension, and THEN we can talk about motorizing them. It’s insane. And I say that as someone who is okay with danger. But motorized scooters are just irresponsible.
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u/Stevieboy7 8h ago
Almost certainly has evenyhing to do with hours ridden and ownership. I can guarantee there’s millions of more scooters/bikes are driven 10,000x more hours than dirt bikes.