[nradov]

Can we please get parked scooters off the sidewalk where they present a safety hazard to visually and mobility impaired people?

[tapland]

I signed up to be a charger for the two local services. Mostly used it to report poorly parked scooters (one man in his 40s just rode up and parked the scooter in front of the supermarket doors so that noone could exit, wtf?).

You can carefully lift them to the side, but people's inability to think of others being manifested so clearly is making me lose faith in people.

[baby]

Can we please reduce the space cars use so that we can take advantage of it as bike/scooter riders or pedestrians?

[shard972]

Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.

[taneq]

You can't make l'omelette without breaking l'eggs.

[bcOpus]

Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.

Where “progress” is synonymous with “profit” and the things being broken aren’t yours. Having said that if you’re volunteering, I know a guy with a hammer.

[shard972]

I'm just making an observation of the facts, not positing a moral good or bad to progress.

[thecatspaw]

Its not a true oberservation of facts though. Progress is achievable without any breaking of legs

[shard972]

Name one technology disruption that caused no pain for anyone?

With user taxi drivers lost their monopolies, the car put horse and buggies out of business, amazon put many retailers out of business etc. etc.

I can't think of one advancement that had 0 negative effects on anybody. I don't even know why someone would argue otherwise, i thought this was a pretty common position in somewhere like HN.

Sure you can say that the overall benefits were easily worth it, but its irrelevant to my point that there is always eggs broken along the way.

[BubRoss]

Wouldn't benches, trees and just about everything else be a hazard to those people too?

[GhostVII]

Benches and trees generally aren't in the middle of sidewalks.

[ddalex]

and they generally don't move overnight...