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by fiachamp 2698 days ago
Still seems gigantically space inefficient. Would love to see this experiment done with scooters, especially in LA where the weather is pretty good year-round. I say this as someone incredibly annoyed with people leaving Bird scooters all over the street.
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From my highly unscientific anecdata, that's been one of their primary use cases. The main problem I've heard reiterated is that they're not always readily available, suddenly turning a can-do trip into no-go.
If the "official" answer to the last mile problem is scooters, that'll run into all kinds of resistance from people with disabilities.
Why? Cars and scooters are not mutually exclusive.

Moreso, scooters take up way less space than cars and a properly designed scooter city will have much more room for disabled parking.

Not to mention electric wheelchairs can be surprisingly fast.