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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I wonder if it's simply a fad, a glitch in human psychology that is not correlated at all with the utility of the scooter
Perhaps! I would hazard that it's probably at least correlated with a massive multi-decade glitch in urban transit planning and would wager that not having to commit to buying, maintaining, locking and minding a scooter is a major factor in their rise..
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I feel like it's also a glitch of these startups grabbing more zeros than sanely possible within months of launching https://www.recode.net/2018/3/9/17100964/bird-fundraising-100-million-dockless-scooter-sharing …https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/limebike-raises-70-million-as-the-bike-sharing-battle-rages-on/ …
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Feel like the answer is about levels of utility. E scooters aren’t very useful outside flat parts of SF so more valuable as shared than as owned. People I know who own have small specific uses for them (Ferry to office mostly) and not much else (car bike elsewhere).
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