Electric scooters, or eScooters, or whatever they are called, are suddenly
everywhere on the urban landscape. I want to like them, everyone should like
them because they are green and silent, but they should require all users to
possess the slightest thread of common sense. That’s a tall order in this era.
Still, the asshole quotient of the people who ride them is far below that of
car drivers.
I probably won't be killed by an eScooter, so that's in the plus column. I think that things will balance out as motorists, cyclists, and everyone else find a way to live together. The truth is that this new entry in the transportation model are the least of my worries.
In review: car drivers are the problem, and by "problem" I mean folks who have the power to kill cyclists and pedestrians and do so at a rather alarming rate. So why do people blow a bowel over electric scooters?
