[chasebank]

"If I get a rental car from Hertz or similar and then park illegally, nobody claims this means Hertz should get a ticket or be shut down. Why are scooters different?"

If people could rent cars for very short periods of time and 'return' them on the street, they most definitely would be re-parked illegally. We'd never allow a rental car company to use city streets as a parking lot for their inventory. And, yes, it would be the car company's liability.

[wilted-iris]

As a counterpoint, every Turo I've picked up was from a neighborhood street with free parking and a line of dinged up cars.

[titanomachy]

“If people could rent cars for very short periods of time and 'return' them on the street, they most definitely would be re-parked illegally”

Isn’t this exactly what evo/gig/zip is? Easy to miss if you live outside of a big US metro I suppose.