There's something remarkable about the explosion of scooters as an SF public transit category — it's that there *weren't* really electric scooters until they became accessible by sharing/app.
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this! Though, arguably we would have seen this same overnight explosion in bicycle usage had the SFMTA not banned ('capped') bike sharing in SF. Scooters happened to not have been banned due to a loophole.
And you can have an electric vehicle on 4 wheels with all the torque in the world, more hp than you'll really ever use & capable of going 70mph, but your electric bicycle is kept to an anemic power maximum of 500kW AND these two disparate vehicles are subject to the same laws. 
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it really begs the question if our elected leaders are actually at their core trying their best to protect the car monopoly over our public spaces
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